2025
Synthetic Stones Are Sinking Botswana’s Diamond-Based Economy, World Politics Review, 12 June 2025.
The Sahel juntas are taking on foreign mining companies – and winning, The Continent, 15 March 2025.
New deals probably won’t save infrastructure investments in DRC, Angola and Zambia, Business Day, 13 March 2025.
In Africa, the Race for Critical Minerals Is Recreating Colonial Models, World Politics Review, 7 March 2025.
Mining is pivoting to ‘critical minerals’ like cobalt, lithium … and coal?, The Continent, 15 February 2025.
After the Diamond Rush, Phenomenal World, 5 February 2025.
Cold War History Offers the Solution to the Looming Global Race for Critical Minerals, Time, 8 January 2025.
2024
China Has Already Cornered a Key Part of the Critical Minerals Market, World Politics Review, 30 October 2024.
Copper and Economic Sovereignty, Developing Economics, 10 October 2024.
Russia’s Position in Africa Isn’t as Strong as It Looks, World Politics Review, 3 June 2024.
The UAE Has Set Its Sights on Africa’s Critical Minerals, World Politics Review, 17 April 2024.
Remembering Kenneth Kaunda (1924-2021), Africa’s Last Anti-Colonial Leader, Review of African Political Economy, 1 February 2024.
2023
Zambia’s Copperbelt Fantasy, The Africa Report, 23 August 2023.
Peer review is broken. Paying referees could help fix it, Times Higher Education, 5 May 2023.
The Transformative and Hungry Technologies of Copper Mining, Edge Effects, 16 March 2023.
Copper transformed way the world works before: it’s about to do so again, The Conversation, 23 January 2023.
Grant-getting targets have made academia resemble T-shirt selling‘, Times Higher Education, 4 January 2023.
2022
Frank Maybank, an Australian trade unionist in Central Africa, Radical Currents 2 (Summer 2022).
Review: Settlers at the end of Empire: Race and the Politics of Migration in South Africa, Rhodesia, and the United Kingdom, by Jean P. Smith, Reviews in History (December 2022).
The 1922 Rand Revolt – White Workers’ Marikana?, Amandla! 85/86 (December 2022).
Getting Things ‘Write’: Constructive Criticism, Confidence and Community in the Southern Africa Writing Group‘, ASCL Africanist Blog, 29 August 2022.
Zambia’s copper mines hard-baked racism into the workplace by labelling whites ‘expats’‘, The Conversation, 22 August 2022.
2021
The Global History of Labor and Race: Foundations and Key Concepts, JSTOR Daily, 30 April 2021.
Class, Race and Empire: The White Working Class in Historical Perspective’, The Sociological Review, 30 April 2021.
Repurchasing the Family Silver: Zambia nationalises its copper mines again, ASCL Africanist Blog, 19 February 2021.
2020
Whiteness in Southern Africa, Africa is a Country, 5 April 2020.
White Mineworkers at Zambian Independence, Africa is a Country, 5 April 2020.