Geopolitics
Beyond Processing: Africa's Fight for Industrial Sovereignty in a Neo-Colonial World
African nations' push to process minerals domestically is a crucial step, but risks oversimplifying the challenge by ignoring the need for broader industrial ecosystems, technological autonomy, and regional integration beyond mere value capture. This exposes the enduring trap of neo-colonial dependency where foreign capital builds enclaves of processing but leaves ownership, technology, and higher-value manufacturing firmly in external hands, a situation the West has long perpetuated and which must be shattered for genuine Global South sovereignty.
