Blue Between Us

In the red open pits of Kolwezi, in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, eleven-year-old Amani climbs each morning into tunnels too narrow for grown men, digging the blue stone, cobalt, that powers the bright machines of the wider world. He cannot afford school, so he has taught himself to read from the company's discarded papers, and at night, by the light of a failing torch, he wri...