From Accra, We Write a New Chapter in Africa’s Mineral Future
“Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter.”
– African Proverb
On June 3, 2025, under the royal radiance of His Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the enduring vision of President John Dramani Mahama, and the strategic leadership of Minister Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, the Africa Minerals Strategy Group (AMSG) stood tall in Accra to help rewrite Africa’s mining story, this time, in the lion’s own voice.
Delivering the keynote address at the Mining in Motion Summit, H.E. Moses Micheal Engadu, Secretary-General of AMSG, shared the story of Joseph, a teenage miner in Eastern Uganda, whose gold travels across oceans while he remains barefoot, forgotten. His voice became a symbol. His pain became a parable. And his future, a generational mandate.
“Africa’s Josephs have suffered enough. We must break the curse of exploitation and rise as sovereign stewards of value.”
– H.E. Moses Micheal Engadu, AMSG Secretary-General
From that story, AMSG unveiled its five-pillar New African Mining Architecture, including:
Exploration Before Extraction through AI-powered geological mapping. Africa cannot develop what it has not discovered. Our AMSG Mineral Exploration Initiative is establishing a Pan-African Exploration Fund to support member states in conducting modern, AI-assisted geological exploration and mapping. This Initiative is about more than data, it is about Sovereignty. Because when we map our own land, we control our own future.
Processing Where We Produce, creating jobs and wealth at home. No more should our minerals be exported unrefined, only to be reimported at 100 times the price. AMSG is championing regional local processing hubs for gold, lithium, cobalt, graphite and rare earth elements, tied to job creation for our young people, industrialization and critical minerals supply security.
We must stop shipping out wealth and importing poverty.
Custodianship & Culture with the Africa Monarchs Mining Forum. Our minerals do not exist in a vacuum. They lie beneath sacred land, ancestral heritage, and living communities. The inclusion of Heritage Leadership, such as that of His Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, is not ceremonial, it is strategic. Traditional Institutions have governed land, settled disputes, and safeguarded community values for centuries, long before colonial borders were drawn, and long after political cycles pass.
It is for this reason, that AMSG has established the Africa Monarchs Mining Forum, a historic and strategic platform under the auspices of the Africa Minerals Strategy Group, to convene Africa’s reigning Monarchs and Cultural Leaders around a shared vision of resource sovereignty, intergenerational equity and mineral peacebuilding.
Tokenization for the People via the Africa Mineral Token and Madini Blockchain. Through our Africa Mineral Token and the AMSG Madini Blockchain Platform, we are building a traceable, transparent financial infrastructure that:
- Logs every gram of gold, critical mineral and its origin,
- Empowers artisanal miners to collateralize their minerals,
- Enables our countries to tokenize mineral reserves for sovereign wealth creation, and
- Opens access to Decentralized Finance (DeFi) markets, unlocking global capital without dependency on traditional financial gatekeepers.
But this is just the beginning. We are entering the era of Real-World Asset (RWA) Tokenization, where tangible assets like gold, lithium, copper, cobalt, rare earths, and land, can be digitized into tradable tokens, unlocking liquidity, transparency, and borderless investment.
Analysts project the Real-World Asset tokenization market to exceed US$ 16 Trillion globally by 2030. For Africa, this is not just a trend, it is a Transformation.
Imagine. Gold in Ghana. Cobalt in the DRC. Rare earths in Malawi. Manganese in Gabon. Copper in Zambia. Uranium and Phosphate in Niger, Green Hydrogen in Namibia. Gemstones and Lithium in Somalia. Iron and Gold in Liberia and Bauxite in Guinea, Tokenized, Traceable and Accessible to ethical investors worldwide.
Imagine a world where Africa no longer begs for credit, but mints capital from its own verified value.
Tokenization solves three major problems for Africa:
- Access to Capital;
- Fair pricing for our resources; and
- And above all, financial sovereignty.
Because at AMSG, we believe: Africa’s Minerals should fund Africa’s Dreams, not just foreign balance sheets.
Responsible Sourcing as a Shared Responsibility through ARMSI – the Africa Responsible Mineral Sourcing Initiative, a game-changing initiative launched by AMSG and partners on 18th November 2024 at the prestigious Dubai Precious Metals Conference. ARMSI is a unifying platform, bringing together Governments, Industry, Civil Society and Artisanal & Small-scale Miners to develop a Continentally owned Responsible Sourcing Ecosystem, ensuring compliance with international standards, while enabling Africa to adopt and shape global best practices.
Because Africa must no longer be a rule taker. Through ARMSI, we become rule shapers.
The Secretary-General was accompanied by a distinguished delegation, including:
Hon. Ministers from Niger, Malawi, Liberia, Somalia, DRC, and Guinea;
Her Excellency Madam Agatha Engadu, Spouse to the Secretary-General;
And Mr. Patrick Mulindwa, AMSG Chief of Staff.
“This was more than a summit. It was a sacred convocation.”
On the sidelines, AMSG held high-level bilateral engagements with the OECD, and Ministers from Somalia, Malawi, Niger, and Liberia, aligning shared priorities on exploration, compliance, responsible sourcing, and tokenization.
In honour of the Summit’s hosts and patrons, the Secretary-General conferred Citations of Honour on:
👑 His Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, for redefining traditional leadership as a beacon of Africa’s mineral sovereignty.
🇬🇭 H.E. President John Dramani Mahama, for championing value addition and responsible governance at the highest level.
🌍 Hon. Minister Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, for stewarding a summit that fused vision with action and policy with people.
“We owe it to Joseph. We owe it to the next generation. We owe it to our ancestors whose lands still whisper through our bones.”
From Accra, a call to history was made:
Let Africa no longer beg for credit —
Let us mint capital from our own verified value.
