critical minerals

• August 12, 2026

  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…