
Does Africa Have a Green Industrial Policy or Just Plans Without Industry?
Africa has green industrial plans, but execution gaps are holding them back. This analysis explores minerals strategy, industrialisation and what is missing.


Africa has green industrial plans, but execution gaps are holding them back. This analysis explores minerals strategy, industrialisation and what is missing.

Are African universities preparing students for the energy transition? A deep look at Africa’s growing energy skills gap and what it means for the future workforce.

Africa faces a $100–120 billion grid gap, and it is holding back industry and the energy transition. The real problem is not generation, it is transmission.

Can Africa industrialise with unreliable electricity? An ETA analysis of power reliability, competitiveness and industrial policy in 2026.

Critical minerals have become a focal point of U.S.–China competition. The bigger question for Africa is whether it can capture more processing, manufacturing and economic value before another extractive cycle takes hold.

Africa sits at the centre of the global energy transition’s material foundations. The continent holds an estimated 30% of the world’s reserves of key transition minerals, including cobalt, manganese,...