Lancé il y a 18 mois, le programme d’électrification de l’Afrique promu par le chanteur sénégalo-américain Akon étonne par ses méthodes et par ses résultats. Il y a deux ans, j’ai rendu visite à ma grand-mère à Kaolack, au Sénégal. Pas d’électricité, on fonctionnait au kéro- sène. Je me suis dit, ce n’est pas…
23 September 2015 – Thione Niang, co-founder of the Akon Lighting Africa initiative, presented efforts to address Africa energy crisis at a special panel organized by Africa 2030, a platform set up by the l’avant-garde Network and Gobee Group. He focused his remarks on the objectives and motivations of the 3 cofounders when they launched the project, results…
CNBC interested in the unique business model set up by Akon Lighting Africa and its partner Solektra international – Watch out the interview by George Ndirangu for « Doing Business in Rwanda »
The 6th Akon Lighting Africa Tour provided an opportunity for Akon, Samba Bathily and Thione Niang to observe on the ground the popularity of the initiative they launched 18 months ago. The 3 successful entrepreneurs were actually able to appreciate the progress and the success of their projects in many African countries. The public call…
In partnership with the Korponai Kids Foundation and company Voyaj society, Akon Lighting Africa is supporting a program aimed to form a network of young African leaders, entitled Empowering Africa through Youth Leadership. Thirty young Africans aged 14-17 years, considered to have a very unquiet profile, were selected to attend a personal and professional development…
Akon featured on leading panafrican media Vox Africa while presenting the project and giving a progress update (Nairobi, 27 July 2015 – Exode Luc, Irène Iwangui, Victoire Eyoum – with extracts from Akon Lighting Africa official video, credit DAGENCY)
