Radio Workshop

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Forget the Africa you think you know. This is Radio Workshop. With real stories about young Africans. From Freetown to Cape Town, hear the worlds youngest population. One story at a time.
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Copper Town
Episode 56
Monday, 24 August, 2026

Zambia knows how a copper boom usually ends: rich countries get richer and little is left behind but environmental devastation. This time, a new generation wants to change the ending. In the copper town of Kitwe, Zambia has some of the richest copper deposits on earth, the metal the world needs to build renewable energy and AI data centres. The copper price is climbing, the mines are hiring, and young Zambians want in: a mining student betting her future on the industry, young men digging illegally in the waste dumps for whatever the mines left behind — all of them determined to come out of this boom with more than a hole in the ground. Want to learn how to make narrative podcasts like this one? Watch our tutorial series with DW Akademie on YouTube. Support the showWe can only do this work because of your support. You can make a donation at radioworkshop.org.