Let’s Power up Africa

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Spoken Word: Ghanaian Poet Nora Anyidoho on Access to Electricity

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00:02 Over half a billion people in sub-Saharan Africa

00:06 live

00:08 without electricity.

00:11 That is 1 in 2,

00:14 meaning between me and you,

00:16 one of us

00:18 has to be without

00:20 power.

00:22 So I speak

00:23 for the sons and the daughters studying by candlelight.

00:27 I speak

00:29 for the mothers,

00:30 the fathers,

00:30 the entrepreneurs whose dreams flicker

00:34 in dreariness.

00:35 I speak for the nations seemingly draped in half darkness.

00:39 I speak

00:40 to flip

00:42 the switch.

00:48 Envision a future

00:50 where every home and hospital,

00:52 farm and factory has constant reliable access

00:57 to electricity

00:58 because electricity

01:00 transcends illumination.

01:02 Electricity is the fuel that drives innovation.

01:06 It is the power to empower.

01:09 It is the hope.

01:10 It is the life force of Africa's economic revolution,

01:15 so.

01:16 Sound the gong gong and herald the dawn.

01:19 Beckon the beacon beareth,

01:21 for the night is gone.

01:23 Call for the change makers,

01:25 the innovators,

01:26 and the dreamers.

01:27 Stand with me

01:29 as we shed light and create awareness.

01:32 Let us ignite the continent.

01:35 Let us power up

01:37 Africa.

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Over half a billion people in sub-Saharan Africa live without electricity. That is 1 in 2, meaning between me and you, one of us has to be without power. So I speak for the sons and the daughters studying by candlelight. I speak for the mothers, the fathers, the entrepreneurs whose dreams flicker in dreariness. I speak for the nations seemingly draped in half darkness. I speak to flip the switch. Envision a future where every home and hospital, farm and factory has constant reliable access to electricity because electricity transcends illumination. Electricity is the fuel that drives innovation. It is the power to empower. It is the hope. It is the life force of Africa's economic revolution, so. Sound the gong gong and herald the dawn. Beckon the beacon beareth, for the night is gone. Call for the change makers, the innovators, and the dreamers. Stand with me as we shed light and create awareness. Let us ignite the continent. Let us power up Africa.

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