October 2013 - Africa Cheetah Run

How can African countries capitalize on the current geopolitical changes?

This year Africa celebrates fifty years since the founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAU); never before has the continent been so poised to reap the benefit of its enormous resources. Sweeping political and economic changes over half a century have reformed global power structures, reconfigured international relations and led to serious rethinking of […]

Africa must benefit from its mineral resources

Industrialisation and Trade, Structural Transformation, Planning and Finance / Carlos Lopes

Africa’s political economy is deeply ingrained with its history of the exploitation and (mis)management of its mineral and natural resources. More than 500 years after commercial exploitation of Africa’s resources, Africa continues to host many of the large and unexploited deposits of minerals globally. For example, Africa accounts for three-quarters of the world’s platinum supply,

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