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Fossil Exit or Justice Denied? Africa’s Fight to Lead Its Own Energy Future
In Abuja, oil still smells like prosperity. Along the congested streets of Warri or Takoradi, diesel generators hum a familiar tune of survival. For decades, the promise of oil has been both a burden...
Debt-for-Climate Swaps: Lifeline or Leash for Africa’s Green Future?
Everybody frames swaps as innovation. But who controls the script, and who ends up on the cutting room floor? Debt-for-climate swaps are enjoying a moment. Policymakers and international institutions...
Who’s Funding Africa’s Transition? The Hidden Gatekeepers of Green Finance
Billions are pledged. But who decides who gets them, and on whose terms? Across Africa, the energy transition has become more than a technical debate. It’s a question of power, politics, and people....
Oil is Still Paying the Bills: Can African Governments Afford to Let Go?
It is easy to call for an end to fossil fuels from a podium in Paris. Much harder when you are in Abuja, Luanda or Brazzaville, facing empty treasuries, unpaid civil servants, and swelling youth...
In the Shadow of Conflict, Solar Power is Rebuilding Lives in Goma
It is evening in Goma, and the sun has just slipped behind the jagged hills that surround this bustling city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. As darkness falls, the cityscape begins to...
Who Truly Benefits from Just Transitions in Africa? The Rising Tide of Elite Extraction
In recent years, Africa has been hailed as a leader in designing just transitions, energy shifts that protect both the planet and people. Among the most ambitious is the Just Energy Transition...
Africa’s Resource Revolution: How Raw Minerals Are Becoming Gold Mines for Local Value
Africa is in the midst of a silent revolution. One that sees nations taking a firmer hold over the minerals beneath their feet. From Mali’s dramatic seizure of Barrick’s gold to Zimbabwe’s lithium...
Fossil Fuel Phaseout? Why Africa’s Climate Plans Tell a Different Story
At every global climate conference, the message is always clear: the world must end fossil fuel use. The speeches are moving and fast. Scientists warn of the dangers of coal, oil, and gas, and...
How Solar Mini-Grids Are Transforming Lives in Sub-Saharan Africa’s Conflict Zones
In Sub-Saharan Africa, nearly 600 million people still lack access to electricity. In conflict-affected regions, this problem is compounded by displacement, insecurity, and crumbling infrastructure....
Africa's $5 Trillion Renewable Energy Shift: Will Sub-Saharan Communities Reap the Rewards?
When Power Shift Africa released its recent report estimating that Africa could save as much as $5 trillion by transitioning fully to renewable energy by 2050, the headlines wrote themselves....
Beyond the Tracks: What Africa's Mining Corridors Really Mean for the Communities They Bypass
"The trains pass, but we are still in the dark." That was the quiet but piercing remark of Mariam, a farmer in northern Zambia, whose family was relocated to make way for an expanded rail line linked...
Why Africa Must Stop Exporting Wealth: The Case for Processing Our Own Minerals
“If we keep selling the raw and buying the refined, we’ll always be poorer than we are rich.” That line, from a young Ghanaian engineer at a mining expo last year, stuck with me. And as African...