Lighting the Dark Continent

Lighting the Dark Continent / Achim Steiner, Adnan Amin and Kandeh K. Yumkella, Project Syndicate, 15 Feb. 2012

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/asteiner15/English

Nineteenth-century European explorers called Africa the “Dark Continent,” because to them it was vast and largely unknown. Today, Africa may still be dark, but for a very different reason: it is chronically short of electricity. Indeed, nocturnal satellite images show that, except for some parts of southern and northern Africa, it barely twinkles…