Will Africa really leapfrog to renewables?

Africa has an electricity crisis. Hundreds of millions of people
lack cheap, steady supply, crippling lives in countless ways.
Every other continent has electrified off the back of fossil
fuels but Africa, on the face of it, has the opportunity to do it
differently. Researchers found that some 2,500 power plants are
planned across the continent. But the majority are expected to
run on fossil fuels threatening to lock Africa into dirty energy
for decades. In this edition of The Climate Question, we ask:
What would it take to bring clean power to every African? For
answers, we have one of Africa’s leading experts on power.
Damilola Ogunbiyi ran the Lagos power authority before taking
over efforts to electrify Nigeria’s rural communities. Today,
she’s the CEO of Sustainable Energy for All and the Special
Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy
for All. We are also joined by Tony Tiyou, the Cameroonian CEO of
the firm Renewables in Africa. And we hear from a community in
Nigeria where people just want the lights on, now.