Energy Transition Africa

“Only 14% of committed mini-grid funding has actually been disbursed.” That figure should stop every energy conversation in its tracks.…

I grew up counting nights by how dark they felt. In our part of Nigeria, as in most parts of…

I still remember the first time I saw electricity reach a village.It was late in the 1990s, and I was…

Every year, the rains come and go. The villagers gather at the same broken borehole, filling buckets from puddles that…

There is a sound I remember from my childhood, not the noise of generators or the crackle of candles, but…

When I think about the childhoods many African children are living today, I am transported back to my own: a…

There is a photograph I keep in my mind, a memory rather than an image. It is of a dusty…

I have walked through towns where the ground is rich, but the people are not. Places where the earth underneath…

Not long ago, I stood near a primary school building in northern Nigeria. A technician was fastening a solar panel…

When negotiators at COP30 announced new climate-finance commitments in Belém, my mind went to the children I met earlier this…