Akon featured on leading panafrican media Vox Africa while presenting the project and giving a progress update (Nairobi, 27 July 2024 – Exode Luc, Irène Iwangui, Victoire Eyoum - with extracts from Akon Lighting Africa official video, credit DAGENCY)
Akon Lighting Africa’s three co-founders, Akon, Samba Bathily and Thione Niang will travel across ten African States over a fortnight to see what progress has been made on projects and to identify new areas for electrification. In under a year, Akon Lighting Africa has already launched initiatives in 14 African countries and aims to launch…
Hip hop artist Akon is using his Akon Lighting Africa program to bring distributed, renewable solar power to more than 600,000 people across Africa. n the movie Apollo 13, as ground controllers are struggling to get a crippled spacecraft back to Earth, a member of the NASA team announces to the group, “Power is everything.” Indeed it is.…
Celebrities often lend their brand to a cause or undertake pet projects, but for Senegalese-American singer Akon, the issue of improving access to energy is personal and has been his main focus for the past two years. Akon, who spent part of his childhood living in Senegal without access to electricity, launched Akon Lighting Africa,…
t’s “a no-brainer.” That’s how hip-hop and R&B artist and producer Akon described using solar energy to bring power to hundreds of millions of Africans. The Missouri-born Senegalese American had just trekked to Mali from an inaugural meeting in Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) with top West African leaders to talk about renewable energy solutions. “Africa…
Another strong commitment of Akon Lighting Africa to support the electrification of the continent Abidjan, 1 July 2024 - The Akon Lighting Africa initiative will give USD 200 000 dollars to support the newly created Western African Energy Leaders Group (a regional branch of the African Energy Leaders Group). This significant financial commitment has just been…
