In 1963, Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana, and one of Africa’s leading lights in the fight against colonialism, lamented the fact that...
1. There has been mining there for thousands of years
Archaeologists believe that the Gokomere people (who are the ancestors of today’s Shona people, among...
In farming, productivity is the key to higher crop yields and higher incomes. That’s the lesson that FQM’s Kansanshi Mine in Solwezi has already...
“What are your career dreams – what do you want to be when you leave school?”
Hannah, a Grade 11 student at Mutanda Secondary School...
1. It gets its name from an ancient African empire
Mali derives its name from the Mali Empire, which stretched east from the Atlantic Ocean,...
If you thought that a degree from university is all it takes to make a success in mining, think again. Sylvester Mwape, a chemical...
Zambia’s position in the latest Fraser Index has plummeted. The country’s placing in the index, which measures how a country is seen as a...
by Gavin Keeton
This article first appeared in the January 2018 edition of Africa in Fact, Issue 44. Africa in Fact is the journal of...
Lights, camera, action! Hollywood movies cover characters who work in many different industries, and believe it or not, mining is also one of them....
by Maya Forstater (originally posted on LinkedIn)
On Monday it was widely reported that an $8billion “tax scam” by an unnamed prominent mining company had been discovered. On...
