Akon Visits Gambia To Promote Solar Lighting & Youth Empowerment

Veronica N | BusinessMarch 7, 2017348

Lighting Africa

With the Akon Lighting Africa project, the superstar hopes to provide millions of African homes with affordable electricity. Akon says the idea to supply solar energy to African homes was born out of his desire to put electricity in to his grandmother’s house back in Senegal. “It was a way of just trying to figure out what solution would be necessary to get electricity there,” Akon said.

“In the process, you start to realize how many people are out there lacking electricity, especially in Africa.”

The initiative, which was started in 2015, has so far managed to raise $1 billion to finance the various solar lighting projects across Africa.

 

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