US Resource Scramble Must Spur Africa to 'Protect Its Own Interests', Scholar Warns
US Resource Scramble Must Spur Africa to 'Protect Its Own Interests', Scholar Warns
Greenland is opening up possibilities that we have never thought about. And these possibilities are punctuated by the green transition and the critical minerals that are important for that transition [...]. The history of territories is very interesting, but in Africa we have got the experience of what territory meant for the imperial powers.
#AfricanCurrents turned to Professor Maano Ramutsindela, a scholar of political geography and political economy in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, to discuss Greenland as a “sleeping giant” of natural resources and its strategic position above the Arctic Circle, which places it at the center of 21st-century geopolitical competition.
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