Addressing Africa’s ‘Poverty’ amidst Minerals Abundance: Critical View

Editorial Comment “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery None but ourselves can free our minds….”  the late Bob Marley said it all, in his “Redemption Song” released in 1980 under one of his most popular albums, “Uprising”.. The need for Africa’s minerals resources rich countries to end the colonial legacy of raw minerals and other natural resources exports over dependency and to re-think, re-image, and re-set natural resource endowment to play a catalytic role in their development agendas, has become more imperative than ever before. South-South Cooperation  The rising geopolitical tensions…