The 10-year review of the African Mining Vision (AMV) is an opportunity to showcase the
need for futures literacy, foresight and anticipatory governance. The COVID-19 pandemic
accentuates the lack of anticipatory capabilities in African mining to enable early detection
of emerging disruptors with significant impacts on mining futures. Institutionalising
futures literacy at the African Mineral Development Centre (AMDC) and the broader
extractive industry would build capabilities to embrace alternative futures of mining and
to re-imagine positive visions of African mining. Empowering the AMV would enable the
envisioning of alternative and contextually appropriate African futures of mining that
facilitate anticipatory governance cultures within the mining sector. Adopting these policy
suggestions would accelerate the pace of AMV domestication and enhance the ability of
the AMDC to use the future and transform the AMV implementation trajectory.
