Africa Pays the Price: The Hidden Cost Behind the World’s Green Energy Boom

The global push toward clean energy is accelerating — but the world rarely asks who pays the real cost.
Across Africa, the rush for lithium, cobalt, nickel, and uranium has reshaped landscapes, displaced communities, and intensified geopolitical competition. What looks like a green revolution from afar often leaves behind a trail of environmental damage and social pressure on the continent supplying the minerals.

This episode uncovers the hidden cost behind the world’s green energy boom:
• Why Africa’s mineral wealth fuels the global clean-energy transition
• How lithium, cobalt, and uranium extraction is reshaping the Sahel
• The rising strategic competition between China, the United States, and France
• The environmental risks and human impact rarely shown on global platforms
• Why Africa bears the burden of a future it did not design

From giant open-pit mines to unstable regions where minerals fund armed conflict, Africa stands at the centre of a battle for the world’s sustainable future — but at a price few outside the continent see.

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