Why Solarpunk is already happening in Africa

Most hopeful climate stories these days are about solar. This one is about «how Africa is building the future by skipping the past.» While development experts spent 50 years debating how to extend 20th-century infrastructure to rural Africa, something more interesting happened: Africa built the 21st-century version instead. Modular. Distributed. Digital. Powered by the sun, subsidised by the carbon it avoids.