Carlos Lopes ✓

@LopesInsights · Cape Town, South Africa · joined 14 Feb 2013

Professor @MandelaUCT, Cape Town, Associate Fellow @ChathamHouse, @AfricanClimateF Chair, Championing Africa's transformation.

106 441Followers

263Following

17 382Posts total

85.5KViews on collected posts

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Carlos Lopes ✓@LopesInsights12 Sep

You are good @EdgarPieterse 215 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Carlos Lopes ✓@LopesInsights12 Sep

The English version of my book "Self Deception Trap" has now surpassed 60,000 downloads across various platforms. Download it for free using the link below. https://t.co/j5MHTMADUL 935 views · 5 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Carlos Lopes ✓@LopesInsights12 Sep

I will participate in the launch of my fellow compatriot's book on conflicts in Guinea-Bissau https://t.co/d7N2GdQYSN

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Carlos Lopes ✓@LopesInsights12 Sep

@davidpilling writes about the new map. This and more: “And Africa is not a small appendage to the world,” Lopes added, referring to an internet meme depicting China, India, western Europe, the US and Japan all fitting snugly into the African continent." https://t.co/apgCMJaVnr 1.5K views · 9 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Carlos Lopes ✓@LopesInsights5 Sep

@LopesInsights @rdussey Encouraging to see that the UN after 80 years is discovering an issue that bothered me when I was in primary school, and for which multiple simple answers have existed for centuries. The UN employs learned men, all of them. 40 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Carlos Lopes ✓@LopesInsights5 Sep

@LopesInsights @rdussey Amigo, foi uma grande vitória. Parabéns @rdussey. 👏👏👏⚘️⚘️⚘️ 42 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Carlos Lopes ✓@LopesInsights4 Sep

@LopesInsights @rdussey Yes. There should be zero Africans in Europe, especially small countries like Ireland. 35 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Carlos Lopes ✓@LopesInsights4 Sep

Thank you, @rdussey, for taking our battle to the UN 🌍🗺️ It has been a long journey to show how cartography can perpetuate narratives inherited from centuries of contempt, offering false comfort built on distortion. Today, that deception is finally being challenged. ✊🏾 25.1K views · 275 likes · 92 reposts · 8 replies Open on X →

Carlos Lopes ✓@LopesInsights2 Sep

CORRECT THE MAP IS NOT THEREFORE ABOUT ATTACKING A MAP, IT IS ABOUT CORRECTION A DISTORTION. @_AfricanUnion #FairWorldFairMap #TrueSizeOfAfrica #CorrectTheMap #MapsMatter #CartographicJustice #RepresentationMatters #AfricaMatters #DecolonizeMaps #KnowAfrica #GlobalJustice https:

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38.2K views · 194 likes · 77 reposts · 8 replies Open on X →

Carlos Lopes ✓@LopesInsights29 Apr

@LopesInsights @UCT_news @SandraDeMoz 46 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Carlos Lopes ✓@LopesInsights29 Apr

@LopesInsights @UCT_news Congratulations! 110 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Carlos Lopes ✓@LopesInsights28 Apr

MY NEW BOOK IS OUT. A dignified recognition of Amilcar Cabral, the agronomist, co-organised with my @UCT_news colleagues Anselmo Matusse and Lesley Green. Discover that Cabral was also the father of the African agro-ecology. Free download here 👇 https://t.co/EmFDDJiR2c https:/

18.6K views · 269 likes · 117 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views664this account5 912median for 100K–1M

Reach, %0.62%this account1.58%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.75%this account1.04%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	664	5 912	0.11×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	0.62%	1.58%	0.39×
Engagement rate	0.75%	1.04%	0.72×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

18.6K28 Apr

11029 Apr

38.2K2 Sep

25.1K4 Sep

425 Sep

1.5K12 Sep

664

935

215

Last 12 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

2.11%28 Apr

0.00%29 Apr

2.17%

0.75%2 Sep

1.49%4 Sep

0.00%

2.38%5 Sep

0.00%

0.86%12 Sep

0.30%

1.07%

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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.04%.

What the audience does

Likes58.3%756 in total

Reposts22.7%294 in total

Replies1.9%24 in total

Quotes0.6%8 in total

Bookmarks16.6%215 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

Followers by day

12 Sep

Daily snapshots since 12 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

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