THE CONGO COULD BE AFRICA'S ENGINE

Echoing revolutionary Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah's dream of the Congo's pivotal role in transforming Africa, our recent ‘Pan-African Attitude’ podcast guest Kambale Musavuli laid out statistics on his country's vast economic potential.

Musavuli, one of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's leading journalistic voices, argued that Africa's stalled potential is partly caused by our failure to see that the Congo's sorry state is by design. Using proxies Rwanda and Uganda, Western powers have been able to extract the country's vast natural wealth, estimated to generate $16 trillion from four key minerals—copper, nickel, cobalt, and lithium—in the next 25 years, according to the IMF.