WiM-Africa Advocates Africa’s Mineral Value Chain at Shanghai Metals Expo 2026

Nigeria advocates that Africa must move beyond merely celebrating the scale of its mineral endowments, and instead focus on building the market intelligence, processing capacity, and commercial infrastructure necessary to actively participate in how its minerals and metals are valued.

Dr Comfort Asokoro-Ogaji, Executive Director of Women in Mining Africa (WiM-Africa), is slated to advance this perspective as a roundtable speaker at the Shanghai Metals Expo 2026 in China this November.

Convened by Shanghai Metals Market (SMM), the roundtable will explore “Eastern Pricing 2.0: Integrating Futures, Physical Markets, Industry and Finance for the Next Stage of Global Metals Pricing.”

As Dr Asokoro-Ogaji notes, Africa cannot establish meaningful pricing power solely through the presence of minerals beneath its soil.

‘We must consolidate our African mineral ecosystem—encompassing producers, geological and market data, processing capacity, standards, laboratories, commodity exchanges, financial institutions, and regional value chains—to enhance relevance in the markets where value is determined.’

A key point Dr Asokoro-Ogaji intends to raise in Shanghai is whether the next generation of global metals pricing can establish stronger links between international price-discovery systems and the countries and communities where minerals originate.

WiM-Africa, Dr Asokoro-Ogaji emphasizes, is therefore advocating for deeper continental dialogue among governments, mining companies, commodity exchanges, financial institutions, laboratories, geological institutions, processors, traders, research organisations, women-led enterprises, and regional bodies.

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