Patience Mususa is a Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute and a research affiliate of the Dag Hammarskjöld Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at the Copperbelt University. She is also a visiting fellow of the Africa Policy Research Institute where she co-leads a project on Africa’s agenda for its green and transition minerals. An anthropologist with a background in architecture and working at the intersection of research and policy, Patience’s work covers an interest in the economic geography of extractive locales with a focus on South and Central Africa, and specific expertise on Zambia. She also has an interest in Africa’s urbanisation dynamics, including urban welfare, climate politics and green industrialisation plans.