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The Guardian - UK
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Carlos Mureithi in Unguja

‘Solar Mamas empower our people by giving them electricity’: the women lighting up Zanzibar

A woman holds a cable and a screwdriver
Solar Mama engineer Sharifa Hussein connects a solar light. Photograph: Michael Goima/The Guardian

In a dimly lit corridor of a mud-walled house nestled among coconut trees, Sharifa Hussein stripped red and black cables, a screwdriver voltage tester balanced between her lips and rolls of cable lying by her feet.

Then, with the help of three other women, she attached the two wires to an electronic device nailed on the wall.

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