LEADING T H E WAY
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here are few discoveries that have been as impactful to human development as that of fire. Fire, and the result of energy transference onto solid and liquid matter to varying effects and degrees, entirely changed the way that we - as 68 | Africa Outlook issue 95
a forward thinking and innovative species - have moved ahead, and has spearheaded the way that we have manipulated the environment around us to our benefit and survival for thousands of years. It has been thanks to this
rudimentary energy source that we have been able to cook food, sterilise water, light settlements and warp materials to our will. Where fire was the root of our revelation, the impact of the raw element on such materials allowed us to realise a breadth of opportunities that lay before us, and when we first mined metal ore, we saw only a greater opportunity to grow and evolve.
