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Pit. Market. Policy.

Mecktilder Mbajo Mchomvu is an advisor, speaker and policy voice across the African mineral value chain: from the pit to the policy table.

From the pit

  1. Value chain station: market
    2010

    Reads Commerce & Finance

    University of Dar es Salaam Business School

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    Trading with her mum since age eight, learning what money does and how systems work sounded like the real deal.

  2. Value chain station: pit
    2012

    Artisanal gold

    Melela (Morogoro) · Nanyupu (Mozambique)

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    Opened a new curiosity: these minerals must be hiding more than what we know.

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Her words against Act I: what the policy table has never seen

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What she built

  1. Value chain station: market
    2019

    Co-founds WOOW ME

    Dar es Salaam

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    Minerals no longer leaving without value added, mine to market: Africa owning its mineral narrative, everything created by Africans.

  2. Value chain station: pit to policy
    2021

    Founds TWiMMI

    Dar es Salaam

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    A platform where women and youth in mining get clear information, the right networks, and access to finance, markets, training, technology and connections.

  3. Value chain station: pit, the return
    TBC

    Winza

    Winza

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    Winza photograph, full-bleed: the strongest moment on the site

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  4. Value chain station: processing
    2026

    Co-founds Anchorstone Holding

    Dar es Salaam

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    A services company taking mines from construction to operation, supplying consumables in critical minerals, defence and security, and building supply-chain systems.

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Her words against Winza: what reclaiming the licence meant

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To the policy table — and back

  1. Value chain station: policy
    2024

    Critical and strategic minerals recommendations, ICGLR

    DRC · Zambia · South Sudan · Kenya

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  2. Value chain station: pit to policy
    2024

    ASM handbook chapter, with PanAFGEO

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  3. Value chain station: policy
    2025

    Comparative analysis: US, EU and African critical minerals instruments

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  4. Value chain station: policy
    2025

    EITI board meeting

    Arusha

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  5. Value chain station: policy
    2026

    Keynote: Leadership in the Age of AI

    Kigali

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  6. Value chain station: policy
    2026

    Master of Ceremonies, Investing in African Mining Indaba

    Cape Town

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The closing line: why she still goes back

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