African resource nationalism: A very old idea posing as new information

A miner in Sierra Leone (Credit: Roy Maconachie and Simon Wharf / University of Bath)

When I got married in 2015, I was deluged with congratulatory messages from friends and acquaintances. One of these messages, from a Togolese friend of mine still stands out in my memory five years later. It read, “Congratulations David. Now please make sure to make lots of African babies.” This

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David Hundeyin

Socio-Political Affairs