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Artur (not his real name) is showing us the cracks in the mud-brick walls of his house. They appeared after mining company Sigma Lithium began using explosives to open up fresh extraction areas in their open-cast mine. The mine lies a few hundred metres away from the village of Piauí do Poço Dantas. On the other side of a small river, community members bathe and wash their clothes. ‘They have been doing the explosions at night, and now no one here can sleep at all,’ a neighbour tells us.
This is an early access version, the complete PDF, HTML, and XML versions will be available soon. Open AccessArticle by Ivy Chumo 1,*, Caroline Kabaria 1, Alex Shankland 2 and Blessing Mberu 1 1 African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), APHRC Campus, Kitisuru, Nairobi P.O. Box 10787-00100, Kenya 2 Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton BN1 9RE, UK * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
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