Power First
A decade to the world's largest refinery.
Global South industry is not waiting for permission. It builds at a scale nobody else attempted.
There is no magic code, just persistence.
Announced in 2013, the Dangote Refinery came onstream a decade later: 650,000 barrels a day through a single train, the largest of its kind in the world, built to meet all of Nigeria's fuel demand with a surplus to export. Next door, its fertiliser plant already ships three million tonnes of urea a year.
The lesson: Global South industry builds at a scale nobody else attempted, and does not wait for permission.
This is the continent industrialising on its own terms.