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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 more in a further 11 countries by the end of 2016. Follow the road show’s progress on the Akon Lighting Africa website – see you on 24th July for the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, an international meeting that will be attended by US President, Barack Obama to discuss the dynamism of African entrepreneurship.
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