Are diamonds forever? The scientific geopolitics of Africa

The African continent has witnessed a pronounced surge in political dynamics across its western region in recent times. A notable trend is the gradual incursion of military figures from their barracks into executive domains, a disturbing phenomenon that has become increasingly recurrent. Central to these sequential military takeovers is the underlying struggle for dominance over the abundant resources inherent to the African terrain. It should not be forgotten that natural and mineral resources are realities of Mother Nature and depend on geological and tectonic events that occurred in the very distant past as Planet Earth cooled down from its primordial…