• Jon Alami

Floating power plants from Turkey promise to solve blackouts in the Global South. But easy fixes come with political risks.

• Brian Kamanzi

Load-shedding, deepening privatization, and unaffordable electricity makes it difficult to imagine a pivot away from the neoliberal approach to South Africa’s climate crisis.

• Mehita Iqani
• Nicky Falkof

Andre De Ruyter, the former CEO of Eskom, has presented himself as a simple hero trying to save South Africa’s struggling power utility against corrupt forces. But this racially charged narrative is ultimately self-serving.

• Vivian Chenxue Lu

The erratic electricity supply in Nigeria is a metaphor for life there.

• Valeria Geselev

• Siddhartha Mitter

Obama's energy program for Africa, risks appearing tentative and small-bore, like much of the administration’s Africa policy.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The mixing of popular protest and music in protests over electricity cuts in Senegal.