# Tânia Tomé

Tânia Tomé (born 1981) is a Mozambican public speaker, entrepreneur, and author. She also releases music under the name Queentanisha.

## Early life and education

Born in Mozambique, Tomé completed a degree in economics from the Catholic University of Portugal, with an academic merit award received from former Portuguese President Mario Soares. She obtained a postgraduate degree in business administration from the Catholic University of Portugal, and completed an entrepreneurship and business program at Notre Dame University.

## Career

Tomé first worked as a credit analyst, and was an executive with an investment company. In 2011 she founded a firm called Ecokaya and was its CEO. In 2020, she published the self-help book Succenergy: Activate Your Energy, Discover All Your Success inside You, which led to an invitation to give a TEDx talk, followed by invitations to host training seminars in several nations in Africa and South America. She specializes in entrepreneurship and leadership systems, and often speaks on such topics in the media.
Tomé is the president of Womenice.org, a women's leadership organization that hosts the Global Leadership Conference. She is also a member of the Forbes Coaches Council and serves as a judge for the Stevie Awards. She has been recognized for her contributions to Mozambican and Portuguese culture, and has published several books of poetry and fiction.
Tomé is also a singer, and at age 7 won a Southern Africa music content held by the World Health Organization. She has released some music under her own name, in the jazz, soul, and afropop genres. In 2018 she adopted the stage name Queentanisha and has released several singles under that name.
Aidoo Lamonte and Daniel F. Silva, who translated and introduced Tomé's literary works in Lusophone African Short Stories and Poetry after Independence: Decolonial Destinies (2021), described her unusual career:
   Throughout the 2010s, Tomé became a public figure of sorts, opening her own business consulting firm in Mozambique ... she has given TED talks and toured as a motivational speaker, targeting generations of Mozambican, Lusophone, and international audiences with facile notions of individual agency that dissimulate existing structures of marginalization. At the same time ... she has articulated, though, tacitly, relations of solidarity between the Mozambican state and other left-leaning governments in the Global South. Her first collection of literature, Agarra-me o Sol por Trás, garnered praise upon release. ... her poetry is centered on the body, particularly, the Black female body, in its entrapment within the various webs of imperial, patriarchal, and political meanings and violence.

## Awards and honors

* 2003 Portuguese Academic Award by former Portuguese President Mario Soares (Portugal-Africa Foundation)
* 2015 Young Executive Business Leader Award by Global Banking Finance Awards (UK)
* 2018 Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD)
* 2020 100 Mais Influences da Lusofonia- 100 Powerlist
* 2021 The Choiseul 100 Africa Most Influential Leaders of Tomorrow (France)

## Books

* Agarra-me o sol por trás (poetry) (Showesia/Mozambique, 2010) ISBN 978-1661787424
* Agarra-me o sol por trás, outros escritos e melodias (poetry) (Editora Escrituras, Brazil 2010) ISBN 978-8575313886
* Conversas com a Sombra (prose poetry) (Editora Showesia, Mozambique, 2011)
* Conversas com a Sombra" (prose poetry) (Publisher - Editora de Letras, Angola 2013)
* Conversas com a Sombra 2.0 (novel) (Editora Chiado, Portugal, 2020)ISBN 978-9895289738
* Succenergy - Ativa a Sua energia e descubra todo Sucesso que há em você (Lisbela Editora, 1st editio, Personal Development) - Brazil ISBN 978-1705374405
* Succenergy - Ative a Sua energia e descubra todo Sucesso que há em você (Amazon Brazil, 3st edition, Personal Development) - Brazil ISBN 979-8681320470
* Succenergy - Para Adolescentes – Preparação para o Sucesso (Amazon Brazil, 1st editio, Personal Development) - Brazil ISBN 979-8678698643
* Melanina, Uma Sonhadora da Favela do Quinto Grito (novel, "Melanin, A Dreamer from The Fifth Shout Neighborhood") (Amazon Brazil, 2022) ISBN 978-6500400021
* Melanina, Uma Sonhadora da Favela do Quinto Grito (novel) (Alcance Editores, 2022)
Other participations and works
* Co-author of the book Seminario de Palestras da República de Mocambique on the theme of Culture and Creative Industries for Wealth Creation (50 pages, 2011) - Mozambique
* Co-author of the book Tempo e dinheiro - Lisbon Press 2020 - Portugal
* Co-author of the book Lideres do Sec XXI - Lisbon Press 2020 - Portugal
* Poetry DVD - Showesia - Tribute to José Craveirinha