I grew up learning how to adapt to electricity failure. You learn early what time power usually goes out, you know when to charge phones, when to pump water, and when to run appliances. You learn the...
For most of the past decade, climate finance has been discussed as a moral equation. If African countries showed ambition, net-zero targets, transition plans, long lists of renewable projects, and...
Africa is being courted again. This time, the language is cleaner: energy transition, critical minerals, clean infrastructure, climate finance. The urgency is sharper, the timelines are shorter, and...
For more than a decade, Africa’s climate transition has rested on a delicate fiction: that global climate finance, however slow and insufficient, would eventually scale up. Pledges would harden into...
For years, global climate negotiations have relied on a fragile yet powerful idea: that collective action, however imperfect, is preferable to unilateral drift. The machinery of climate governance...
When the United States withdraws from global climate institutions, the consequences are never confined to Washington. They ripple outward through markets, multilateral banks, diplomatic alignments,...
Africa’s energy future has been modelled in extraordinary detail. The real question is why so little of it materialises. Across think tanks, multilateral banks, consultancies, and academic...
For much of modern history, Africa’s mineral wealth was treated as a geological inevitability rather than a strategic asset. Copper left the continent as ore. Cobalt moved raw across oceans. Value...
Africa’s energy transition is often described as a problem of scarcity: there is not enough capital, not enough concessional finance, and not enough international support. But this diagnosis is...
I still remember the first time I saw electricity reach a village.It was late in the 1990s, and I was a boy visiting my grandmother’s house in Cross River State, Nigeria. A single light bulb...
If finance is the lifeblood of the energy transition, Africa’s arteries are still half-blocked. In 2024, the world’s multilateral development banks (MDBs) reported record climate commitments $137...
Every year, the rains come and go. The villagers gather at the same broken borehole, filling buckets from puddles that the government once promised to replace with solar-powered pumps. Somewhere in...