Opinion: Building Africa's Energy Grid Can be Smart, Affordable
It’s just after 2pm on a sunny Saturday and 51-year-old Moses Kasoka is seated outside the grass-thatched hut which serves both as his kitchen and bedroom.
Physically challenged since birth, Kasoka has but one option for survival and begging.
But he thinks life would have been different had he been connected to electricity.
“I know what electricity can do, especially for people in my condition,” he says.
“With power, I would have been rearing poultry for income generation,” says Kasoka, who is among the estimated 645 million Africans lacking access to electricity, hindering their economic potential."
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