Off-Grid Solar Electrification in Africa

Nathanael Ojong is Assistant Professor of International Development Studies and Deputy Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas at York University in Canada. He is a member of the Knowledge Network of African Experts established by the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Africa to help shape economic and social policy in Africa. His work encompasses renewable energy technologies and finance capitalism, energy and sustainability, urban and rural livelihoods, financial development, inclusive growth, entrepreneurship, informal economies, socio-cultural influences on health outcomes, and social protection in Africa.

• Chapter 1: Energy Justice and Off-Grid Solar Electrification in Africa: Trends, Narratives and Contestations.- Part I     History and Politics of Off-grid Solar Electrification.- Chapter 2 : Off-Grid Enterprise: A Critical History of Small-Scale Off-Grid Solar in Sub-Saharan Africa.- Chapter 3: At the Margins of the Grid: The Politics of Off-Grid Electrification in Senegal.- Chapter 4: Decade of Change: Off-Grid Solar Energy in Rwanda.- Part II     Manifestations of energy injustices.- Chapter 5:  The dark side of the sun: Solar home systems and their injustices in Africa.- Chapter 6 : Framing Energy Justice: Perspectives from Malawi’s Off-Grid Solar Market.- Chapter 7:  Gender Differentiation, Equality and Equity in Off-Grid Solar Usage in Rural Tanzania: A Fraying Thread?.- Chapter 8 ; On-Grid and Off-Grid Electrification in Kenya:Who are left Behind and Why?.- Part III   Enabling uptake: Constraints and Opportunities.- Chapter 9: Solar Home Systems in Rural landscapes: Examining the Forces Shaping Solar Home Systems Adoption in Southeast Nigeria.- Chapter 10:  Assessing Enablers and Barriers to Off-Grid Solar Electrification in Urban Ghana.- Chapter 11: Off-Grid Solar Electrification on the Rise in Africa, But Where to?.