The Resource Paradox: Tanzania’s ‘God-Given’ Wealth
Tanzania is often described as blessed. It is home to the world’s only source of Tanzanite, vast reserves of natural…
From Ore to Opportunity: What Liganga & Mchuchuma Mean for Communities
In Ludewa, where the hills hide Liganga’s iron ore, a farmer looks across his small plot and asks a simple…
Two Narratives, One Corridor: LNG Offshore, Coal Onshore
In the same week, Tanzanians could have read two headlines side by side. “Tanzania finalises Host Government Agreement for USD…
Rails for Rocks: Why Liganga & Mchuchuma Justify Southern Corridors
Picture two trains leaving the coast at dusk. The first is sleek and mostly empty, a prestige service with a…
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…
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…
Who Owns the Nickel Narrative? Transparency, Licensing, and Trust
In every village meeting about a big project, there is a moment when someone stands up and asks a simple…
Community and Corridor: What Kabanga Means for Kagera and Beyond
Stand at first light on a ridge outside Ngara and you can see the outlines of a future that has…
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…
