In the face of increasing automation, Africa’s resource economies will not have the time to create an industrial middle class as developed nations did The effect of increasing mechanisation on the industrial sector has...
Alain Tschudin
Looking forward: the future of mining in Africa
Where a mine owner is accountable to all three main stakeholders – the host country’s government, its people and civil society, and its own shareholders – who owns it is relatively less important I often find myself...
Deep-sea mining: Africa’s new frontier
Despite environmental concerns, deep-sea mining will be a reality by 2030 and African countries with coasts, including Namibia and Nigeria, want to ensure they will benefit from the ‘new gold rush’ Globally, mining...
The logic of the looter
Former colonisers and their multinational companies collude with Africa’s corrupt elites to facilitate looting, but both are under increasing scrutiny Africa’s oligarchs think they have perfected the art of looting....
Taxes and more taxes
Sub-Saharan governments are making easy money from selling exploration licences For decades, scholars have searched for explanations why mineral-rich sub-Saharan Africa performs poorly on most social and economic...
Lesotho: Southern Africa’s ‘water engine’
Lesotho exports water to South Africa at the same time as it imports the bottled product from its larger neighbour – and rural communities are forced to drink from unprotected sources Although Lesotho is a regional...
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