Consulting historian and researcher. I write about mining, migration and Southern Africa. More info here: https://xitter.cf/t.co/q4vQqMh8RR Email: [email protected]
Kampala, Uganda
Joined February 2015
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Digitisation of the historical archive of the Zambia Congress of Trade Unions passed 200,000 pages this week and our project will soon be complete.
This collection should be available to researchers in 2027.
ALT An office workspace setup with an overhead document scanner, laptop, desk fan, and cabinets filled with file binders.
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This sounds like a fascinating biography, appropriately from not only a journalist who’d followed Mugabe for decades, but a Zimbabwean journalist raised in the same community & culture as his subject.
Robert Mugabe: The Black Victorian x Percy Zvomuya hararereview.com/2026/10/22/…
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One professor who recently left academia said it felt like being a miner in 1982 and it’s hard to disagree
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When countries want to move up the value-added processing curve, like Indonesia with nickel, they are competing with cash-rich, low-interest rate China, not the expensive West
Striking statistics in the new Copper Factbook on the rise of metal processing in China and collapse in Europe and America (production in Asia was mostly Japan in 1990, and is overwhelmingly China in 2025).
It's gone from a global industry to a national one in four decades:
ALT Two donut graphs showing world refined copper production in 1990 and in 2025. The graphs show production in Europe declined from 32% to 13%, America declined from 39% to 13% while Asia rose from 19% to 62%.
Striking statistics in the new Copper Factbook on the rise of metal processing in China and collapse in Europe and America (production in Asia was mostly Japan in 1990, and is overwhelmingly China in 2025).
It's gone from a global industry to a national one in four decades:
ALT Two donut graphs showing world refined copper production in 1990 and in 2025. The graphs show production in Europe declined from 32% to 13%, America declined from 39% to 13% while Asia rose from 19% to 62%.
The other striking graphs are the enormous difference between production and consumption.
The two regions that mine 57% of the world's copper (Africa and Asia, graph on the left) use only 2% of the world's refined copper.
ALT Donut graph showing world copper mine production by region. Latin America produces 38% and Africa 19%.
ALT Donut graph showing world refined copper use by region in 2025. Asia uses 76% while Africa and Latin America use 1% each.
The World Copper Factbook 2026 is available here: icsg.org/copper-factbook/
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In the dark welsh valley,
On the mountain side,
Lay the little children
Close to where they died.
Their little lives are ended
Before they reach their goal,
Tender little children
Have paid the price of coal.
We will never forget - Aberfan 21-10-66 #AberfanDisaster
Very pleased to see my report on historic toxic mining pollution in Kabwe is being shared and discussed today with residents in the town.
You can read the report here:
actsa.org/new-report-https-u…
Today, @EAfricaZambia is hosting a breakfast event in Kabwe to bring the findings of ACTSA's report, UNDENIABLE: Anglo American’s Role in the Kabwe Sacrifice Zone, to the heart of the community.
Get involved, support the campaign: 🔗actsa.org/justice-for-the-mi…
#JusticeForKabwe
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Aberfan
I didn’t lose God
From theological arguments
Or scientific dialectics
I lost him in Aberfan
In Vietnam in
Poverty –
bread
jam.
By Roger Cornish
Pitman Poet
(ex Whitwick, Ellistown and Asfordby collieries)
Me and Robrecht Declercq take a long-term look at how mineral exploration has changed over the last couple of centuries in our new article for Mining Journal:
mining-journal.com/mj-commen…
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my deepest mission in life is to share my passion for coinage weight histograms. this is my favorite thing in the whole world
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Is there a single African quoted in this piece? (No.) wsj.com/world/africa/the-new…
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FWIW my neighborhood association dance group in Tokyo does a coal mining dance.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank%C…
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Anyone wanna read Tea in Taiwan: 1870-2000?
More people should publish straightforward articles like 'Coal in Modern Japanese History'. I don't know much about Japanese coal mining, was looking for an overview and this is exactly it:
gensoken.toyo.ac.jp/japanese…
More people should publish straightforward articles like 'Coal in Modern Japanese History'. I don't know much about Japanese coal mining, was looking for an overview and this is exactly it:
gensoken.toyo.ac.jp/japanese…
Obviously great to have important theoretical contributions, uncover hitherto unknown and unexpected angles, etc. but sometimes you need a succinct article on the basics by someone who has mastered the topic.