critical minerals
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Financing critical-mineral infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa: Developmental de-risking or green financial extractivism in the DRC and Zimbabwe?
Kennedy Manduna (CASAS’ member) and Paul Mukoki have published this paper in Resources Policy. Abstract: The global shift towards low-carbon energy systems has heightened demand for copper, cobalt, and lithium, driving investment in African mineral projects. However, developmental outcomes are shaped not only by extraction and processing but also by the financial structures underpinning these…
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Increased Chinese investments in Zimbabwe’s lithium megaprojects: energy colonialism, geopolitics and new patterns of accumulation in Africa’s critical minerals
New publication alert! CASAS member Kennedy Manduna has just published this article in the Review of African Political Economy Abstract: Given China’s expanding presence in Africa’s extractive industry, this article considers why China is benefiting more than Zimbabwe from the significant increase in Chinese investment in the latter’s lithium megaprojects. The article explores energy colonialism…