Let there be light: Brilliant villagers are generating own electricity

Adow Mahdi at Hagdera camp in Dadaab, where he generates and supplies 170 homes with cheap electricity. [Maxwell Agwanda, Standard]

The power of darkness is firing up imaginations and inspiring ordinary villagers to plot schemes out of the suffocating nothingness. The void, at times tempered by mind boggling electricity bills, has triggered unpredictable actions.

In a whirlwind visit to some remote villages, Sunday Standard encountered scores of ordinary people doing extraordinary things to break the shackles of darkness, poverty and unimaginable electricity bills.