Promoting Africa
Akon will not stop impressing us! The star rapper and renewable-energy entrepreneur, is considering an initial public offering of his Chinese-funded solar business in Africa. The Akon Lighting Africa initiative which has been moving at a really rapid pace, has been looking at ways to fuel an intercontinental expansion. In just three years, the initiative has completed 203,200 small-scale…
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Hundreds of millions of people live without access to the grid in Africa. Too expensive to put up, the grid might most likely never reach them. An alternative to is, is what we call off-grid. Lumos Global is an off-grid solar provider operating in Nigeria. The company offers Pay-as-you-go off-grid solar energy solutions which are on the…
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After completing his schooling in the UK in aeronautical engineering, Mutoba Ngoma came across a program about renewable energy in Brazil. This gave him the idea to use that knowledge to start a company
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The gravity-powered lamp is an answer for the estimated 1.5 billion people with no access to electricity worldwide and it could replace the biomass fuels – mainly kerosene lamps – which so many families in the developing world rely on for light
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It all started after the construction of a new dorm at the Maseno school near Kisumu resulted in pit latrines…
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The "Akon Lighting Africa" initiative is planning the creation of a solar academy in Bamako (Mali). Unpublished on the continent, this center will be open to all Africans wishing to invest in the solar sector and to whom it will provide vocational training. The initiative aims to electrify rural areas in ten sub-Saharan African countries:…
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Meet Thato Kgatlhanye the co-founder of “Repurpose Schoolbags”…
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