remember how china could tell the US to go fuck itself because it had all the REE mining AND refining infrastructure? can an african government just spend like 0.01% of their budget on a state owned mineral refining plant for whatever mineral they mine locally
i think rwanda might actually do this but it's been a while since i looked at what their industrialisation plan was
I hope they manage to do it without intervention from the states and Europe. I see videos of them already sticking their dirty little fingers where they dont belong to colonize what they can of the continent of Africa while also working with the UAE to do genocide on the rest