Leveraging Africa’s Raw Materials For Industrialisation, Economic Growth

Africa is no doubt a land of immense human and natural resources. It should, or could, have been a global power in industrialisation by adding value to its vast raw materials through processing them into finished goods.
However, the current state of Africa’s industrialisation is not encouraging news, as the continent remains stuck in a captive mentality, exporting its unprocessed raw materials to other parts of the world due to a lack of capacity for value addition, which is necessary to create jobs and diversify the continent’s economies.
The Nigerian government, through the Raw Materials Research and Development Council (RMRDC), is building experts’ capacity to develop skills that w...