Ghana’s Presidential Advisor Augustus Obuadum “Goosie” Tanoh says the global transition to clean energy has placed Africa at the very heart of the international race for critical minerals.
Speaking to delegates at the High-Level Conference on Governance, Critical Minerals and Conflict in Africa in Accra, Tanoh warned that African nations must approach international negotiations from a position of strength to avoid repeating past economic mistakes.
He urged African leaders to question whether the continent will actively drive its own economic future through local processing or simply remain an exporter of raw materials. Tanoh says Africa must ask itself whether it will leverage this opportunity through beneficiation and value addition, as China has done, or remain on the margins of an industrial revolution driven by the global energy transition.
–ChannelAfrica–
