Who benefits from the lithium fever in the country with the largest deposits in Africa?

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Who benefits from the lithium fever in the country with the largest deposits in Africa?

“I have been dreaming about these gemstones for 11 years. My ancestors revealed their existence to me through dreams,” says Sagacious Dangaranga, a farmer who, last winter, began extracting lithium from his communal lands in Nyagore, a town in Mutoko, east of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe. Continue reading