At an open-cast mine, Abdullahi Ibrahim Danjija carefully chisels away at a hunk of whitish rock before stuffing a sack with the pieces which break off the walls.
In the course of a day’s work, he manages to fill three 50-kilo bags which will net him N150,000 ($100), or around double the monthly minimum wage in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation where more than one in two live below the poverty line.
Three years ago the 31-year-old…
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