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Jack Denton

Zanzibar’s ‘solar mamas’ are trained as technicians to help light up communities

When darkness came, so did the smoke.

Hamna Silima Nyange, like half of the 2 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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