Mining Matters: Resource and Mineral Extraction Across Africa

How do mining activities affect the communities around them? In what ways have mineral resources defined Africa and her people? How does the history of mining in a particular context influence contemporary mining practices? In what ways is mining embedded and linked to the environment and social fabric of particular places? And how are resources and mined materials embedded culturally? These are just some of the questions that the student-organised conference 'Mining Matters: Resource and Mineral Extraction Across Africa' intends to explore.

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