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Nairobi\/Cape Town \u2014 Writing about the minerals beneath Africa\u2019s soil often feels like unpacking a suitcase of clich\u00e9s. We\u2019ve all read the tired tropes: “land of contrasts”, “resource curse”, and “continent of paradoxes\u201d. While sometimes rooted in truth, these phrases risk reducing complex realities to oversimplified narratives. However, the persistence of these clich\u00e9s speaks to a deeper, more troubling reality: the facts on the ground have remained stubbornly unchanged for far too…<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nairobi\/Cape Town \u2014 Writing about the minerals beneath Africa\u2019s soil often feels like unpacking a suitcase of clich\u00e9s. We\u2019ve all read the tired tropes: “land of contrasts”, “resource curse”, and “continent of paradoxes\u201d. While sometimes rooted in truth, these phrases risk reducing complex realities to oversimplified narratives. However, the persistence of these clich\u00e9s speaks to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":191727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661463:de2a469544423b1ceaad871c5911de31:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6287,29750,7415,14213,6797,5760,430,9587,257,19894,254],"class_list":["post-191726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-beneath","tag-blocks","tag-brighter","tag-building","tag-future","tag-kenya-news","tag-minerals","tag-news","tag-soil","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661463:de2a469544423b1ceaad871c5911de31:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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