Rural Electrification in Africa - Namibia Case Study

oneness of the major contributors to ine tone of voice in education amongst the agrestic and urban Africa is the availability, or deprivation of electricity. Time has long done for(p) when electricity was a luxury. At present our actually globe al well-nigh entirely depends on the availability of this commodity. It is a point that a well educated and well trained men is vital for a threatening economy; that said, energy, particularly in level of electricity is the gun behind the victimisation of this dense labour force. In most countries in African, Namibia not macrocosm an exception, the most common form of energy for both brightness and cooking remains firewood and lamp oil; a sad mankind that also happens to be the causes of increase environmental damage and by and by climate change. The skewed developments between the agricultural and urban Africa is mostly due to the fact that most rural Africa remains un-electrified, nonetheless approximately fifty years after independence, in some cases. This has resulted in a development approach that mirrors colonial set-ups, where and urban, or settler aras enjoyed the wealth of the entire country. Hence among early(a) foot challenges facing rural Africa, electricity infrastructure is one, that has since beseem a barrier to quality education for the rural community, especially now in the twenty-first century when education is technology driven.\nBecause of this, learners in rural Africa are deprived of one of the very basic aspect of life, which is in fact a humane right; time. The only social function all human beings, fat or poor, wherever they may be, have in equalize proportion. The lack of electricity in rural communities, especially in rural schools means that learners in rural Africa are denied right smart study time, approximately 12 hours of study a day.\n in brief after independence in 1990, Namibian government prioritised bridging infrastructure gap it inherited from the foregoing political set-up. One of the initiatives practice in place aimed at improvi...