From Extraction to Empowerment: AfDB's Investment Set to Drive New Era of African Industrialization
From Extraction to Empowerment: AfDB's Investment Set to Drive New Era of African Industrialization
“Africa has arrived. This is Africa's century. We are taking greater charge of our trade, our economies, our minerals, our resources, even their transformation and beneficiation. We are coming into getting into global value chains. This is Africa's century. Africa's time has come.”
#PanAfricanFrequency sat down with Dr. Tafadzwa Ruzive, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of the Free State in South Africa, to discuss the landmark decision of the Africa’s Development Bank to invest $75 million in Africa's first-ever titanium dioxide plant in South Africa, indicating that Africa is taking a greater charge of its trade, economies, minerals, resources, as well as their transformation and beneficiation.
Tune in to discover how the investment of the AfDB signal a new era where African-led financial institutions are becoming the primary architects of the continent's strategic industrialization.
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