Akon will supply electricity to 600 million Africans.

[mcdivit85]

 

[Birnin Zana]

The thread title is misleading.First of all this is a project from the World Bank that Akon is getting involved with.Doesn't mean Akon himself is responsible for this. Secondly ,a goal set doesn't mean the goal would be reached,this is a common occurence with World Bank Projects.Most of you guys do not read articles objectively.

EDIT: World Bank being involved isn't a good look. However, even it ends up being 100-200 mil ppl with electricity, his academy gets all the props in the world from me.

 

[Sensei]

EDIT: World Bank being involved isn't a good look. However, even it ends up being 100-200 mil ppl with electricity, his academy gets all the props in the world from me.

What makes you think Akon is even remotely responsible for this?He is just the poster child.The World Bank uses these usual spiels that their projects are going to help people but they usually end up way short.

Lighting Africa has been drawn up since at least 2012 long before Akons involvement.The out come will still not be good. .

 

[Birnin Zana]

What makes you think Akon is even remotely responsible for this?He is just the poster child.The World Bank uses these usual spiels that their projects are going to help people but they usually end up way short.

Lighting Africa has been drawn up since at least 2012 long before Akons involvement.The out come will still not be good. .

EDIT: Akon and his co-founders were honors by an energy forum organized by the UN and the World Bank, so the WB could def be involved somehow.

Of course, potential involvement of the World Bank should make folks look at this with a skeptical eye. But so far, this project has been making positive progress in various countries, and at the least, Akon has been instrumental in marketing the project. And he's been involved in this for 1.5 - 2 years now (he founded the company with 2 other Senegalese).

Obviously they won't reach the 600 million goal anytime soon. And Akon already said many times this is a business ultimately, not charity. But if it achieves even a fraction of its goal, I see no problem with it. And so far, I have no reason to complain about either he or his project.

 

[Sensei]

EDIT: Akon and his co-founders were honors by an energy forum organized by the UN and the World Bank, so the WB could def be involved somehow.

Of course, potential involvement of the World Bank should make folks look at this with a skeptical eye. But so far, this project has been making positive progress in various countries, and at the least, Akon has been instrumental in marketing the project. And he's been involved in this for 1.5 - 2 years now (he founded the company with 2 other Senegalese).

Obviously they won't reach the 600 million goal anytile soon. And Akon already said many times this is a business ultimately, not charity. But if it achieves even a fraction of its goal, I see no problem with it. And so far, I have no reason to complain about either he or his project.

Its the World Bank , don´t you get it, nothing good ever comes from it. Latin American countries are shying away from using the WB, and are instead using the Banco Del Sur which was primarily set up by Hugo Chavez and other South American countries.

Akon did not find the company this project itself is conducted and controlled by the World Bank.This theme by the World Bank that is going to help out Afrcan countries is reoccurring, and the end results are border line catastrophic.But most of all Lighting Africa is not owned by Akon at all.

Like I said people don´t do their homework and really don´t understand global politics what it involves. This is what I mean by people getting emotional and not understanding the challenge at hand.You got to be crazy to think Akon can launch something of this magnitude.

http://ifcext.ifc.org/IFCExt/Pressroom/IFCPressRoom.nsf/0/03BFD7EF6A604D0785257BD4002D468F

Multinational such as Schneider Electric, TOTAL, Panasonic and Energizer are now taking an interest in
a market that had been dominated by smaller companies. This has the potential to drive this market at a faster rate.
By converting from kerosene to clean energy, millions of consumers can improve their health, reduce
their spending on expensive fuels, and benefit from better illumination and more productive time in their
homes, schools and businesses.



The Lighting Africa Market Trends Report gathered input from a broad range of industry experts,
manufacturers, distributors and civil society organizations. It is the second issue in a series.
Download the report here
About Lighting Africa
Lighting Africa, a joint IFC and World Bank program, seeks to accelerate the development of commercial
off-grid lighting markets in Sub-Saharan Africa as part of the World Bank Group's wider efforts to improve
access to energy.



Lighting Africa is implemented in partnership with: The Africa Renewable Energy and Access Grants
Program • The Climate and development Knowledge Network (CDKN) • The Global Partnership on
Output-Based Aid (GPOBA) • The Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) • The
Global Environment Facility (GEF) • Italy • Luxembourg • The Netherlands • Norway • The Public-Private
Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) • The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership
(REEEP) • The United States.

 

[Paper Boi]

doing more for Africa than this country.


remittances

 

[Apollo Creed]

Not even that they aren't reading the article. People just lack the adequate critical thinking skills.

It is impossible to supply electricity to 600 million people in the way the title suggests. It's simply a solar academy that teaches engineering principles of harnessing solar power. "Supplying electricity to 600 million people" is just a figurative way of saying, "there are 600 million people in Africa receiving inconsistent or no power supply". Nice attention grabber though.

In any case, it's a very admirable initiative. Oil and gas is a finite resource, and Africans need to start from now to ween themselves off of its dependence.

Real talk at times I fear making big positive moves in Africa like I plan simply because I know I`d get murked for not being corrupt

 

[satam55]