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Mukasiri Sibanda, Coordinator

Car or cow: A tale of Africa’s poor mineral wealth management

This article is authored by Mukasiri Sibanda, Coordinator, Africa Debt Campaign - Stop the Bleeding Originally published by Newz Wire on 26 May, 2024 | Photo credit: Tafadzwa Ufumeli

In 2015, I imported a used car from Japan. I had been so comfortable to use public transport to get to work and for social errands. In the minibuses, I would be so deeply immersed in people’s stories, the struggles and the humour we often use to diagnose our economic tumor in Zimbabwe. Some things did not make sense to me then.