'Solar mamas' bring light to their communities and improve power safety


By AGENCY
‘Solar Mama’ technicians at Barefoot College International in Kinyasini, Unguja, Zanzibar. Photo: AP

When darkness came, so did the smoke.

Hamna Silima Nyange, like half of the two million people in Tanzania’s semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar, did not have a house connected to the electricity grid. After ­sunset, she would turn to smoky oil lamps that provided the only light for her eight children to study.

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