The Digital Veil: How 'Smart Mining' and AI Partnerships Mask a Neo-Colonial Resource Grab in Africa
Africa, possessing a third of the world's critical minerals, remains locked in a neo-colonial paradigm, exporting raw materials while foreign powers, including the US, UAE, and China, compete for its resources. It is a brutal testament to how the West's 'smart mining' agenda, draped in the cloak of AI partnership, seeks to perpetuate extraction and secure supply chains for its own energy transition, offering Africa little more than technological crumbs from the imperial table.