Akon to provide electricity to 1 million African households

Yes!! Senegalese-American singer, songwriter and producer Aliaune Damala Badara Thiam, known as Akon, is making efforts to ensure that every home in Africa has electricity, through a project tagged ‘Akon lighting Africa’.

‘Akon Lighting Africa’ is aimed at redressing the fact a large part of the population of sub-Saharan Africa is living in the dark.

‘We are extremely pleased by the overwhelmingly positive response of government leaders to embrace a public-private partnership that aims to address access to power in sub-Saharan Africa. This initiative is given further validity and momentum based on the support of these nations and their executives and advisor,’  Akon said in a statement.