Coal Realities: Mchuchuma Between Power, Pollution, and Policy
Hold a lump of coal in your hand and you feel two truths at once. It is dense with stored…
Steel Dreams: Can Liganga End Tanzania’s Import Dependence?
Every year, Tanzania spends more than $1 billion importing steel beams, rods, plates, and coils that form the skeleton of…
Beyond Ore: Kabanga as an Industrial Pivot, Not Just a Mine
Picture two futures. In one, you return to Ngara twenty years from now. The mine has closed. The pit is…
Learning from Zambia: How Not to Build a Nickel Monoculture
There was a time when Zambia’s copper belt seemed invincible. In the years following independence, copper revenues funded schools, hospitals,…
Infrastructure as Destiny: Why SGR + JNHPP Decide Kabanga’s Fate
Picture two futures. In one, a hundred-wagon train rumbles through the night along the Central Corridor, hauling nickel concentrate from…
