Filomena Maria Spencer Africano Fortes (born 10 April 1966) is a Cape Verdean sports administrator and former handball player.
Filomena Maria Spencer Africano Fortes was born on 10 April 1966[1] in Luanda, Angola.
[3] In November 2021, she was elected vice-president of the Association francophone de comités nationaux olympiques.
[5] She has also served in the Comité Paralímpico de Cabo Verde [es] (including as a founding member), as an International Teqball Federation Executive Board member, and as an IOC representative on the World Anti-Doping Agency board.
[6][10][5] In an interview with Nós Genti, she once said that she was "a bit critical of top-level sports in Cape Verde", citing the differences of her own experiences in her native Cape Verde and her own expectations, as well as the large amount of natives playing abroad, but acknowledged the progress her sport has made in the nation and her support for making Olympic solidarity nationally widespread.