The Dangote Refinery and the End of Africa’s Engineered Dependency
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For decades, Africa’s place in the global oil economy was not merely subordinate; it was designed to be so.
Crude flowed out. Refined fuel flowed back in. Value accumulated elsewhere. This was not an unfortunate equilibrium but a system built with precision: refining infrastructure in Europe, currencies of trade external, shipping, and pricing settled far beyond African control. To call this a market outcome is to misunderstand it. It was architecture.
What the Dangote Refinery represents is a d
Crude flowed out. Refined fuel flowed back in. Value accumulated elsewhere. This was not an unfortunate equilibrium but a system built with precision: refining infrastructure in Europe, currencies of trade external, shipping, and pricing settled far beyond African control. To call this a market outcome is to misunderstand it. It was architecture.
What the Dangote Refinery represents is a d
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