Electric vehicles: Africa’s battery minerals and GVC opportunities (2)
Apart from lithium, African countries account for significant shares of global reserves of these key battery minerals. Cobalt is largely...
- Wednesday, June 03, 2026
BusinessDay
Apart from lithium, African countries account for significant shares of global reserves of these key battery minerals. Cobalt is largely...
African countries are not yet significant participants in the global value chain (GVC) of electric vehicles (EVs). A major component...
Alexander Thurston’s 2018 book “Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement” provides a good synopsis of our impunity thesis thus...
There is a huge void in Soyinka’s (2021) “Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth”. It excludes...
The “EndSARS” protests in Lagos, southwestern Nigeria, in October 2020, which spread to other parts of the country, were underpinned...
Discerning Nigerians would be able to identify quite easily those Soyinka refers to in his “Chronicles From the Land of...
The foundation of the security troubles in Nigeria is often misconstrued to be owed to the shenanigans of politicians. That...
The following recommendations apply to firms engaged in international trade on the continent, blockchain technology firms that should find deploying...
Using available African use-cases, we have shown how blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies could be hugely significant for the continent’s international...
The crypto ecosystem relies on the internet and electricity. At 26 percent, African mobile internet adoption remains very low. Electricity...