Strategic Assessment: African Critical Minerals
Authors: Avery Kachmarsky, Dmitri Gourianov, Frederick Gale, Gulnar Atashova, Dr Muhammad Waqar Anwar & Stephen Plotke
Editor: Ksenia Luzhko
Africa holds mineral resources like cobalt, lithium, and platinum, without which no credible net-zero agenda is achievable, making Western engagement a strategic necessity rather than an option.
As the first part of our three-part critical minerals series, this strategic assessment examines how China has leveraged state-backed investment to establish structural dominance across key supply chains, leaving Western governments and private actors in a reactive posture.
