Earlier this week, when asked how to make Africa’s minerals more beneficial to its people, Tanzania’s ambassador to the US, Elsie Sia Kanza, delivered a commercially sensible, economically pragmatic answer. 

To capture a greater share of benefits, she said, African countries need to work together. There are a significant number of resource-rich African countries — and it’s not economically feasible to build processing facilities in each one...

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