Adaku Ufere-Awoonor

“Women bear the greatest burden of energy poverty. If there’s no electricity or water in the home, it’s the woman that goes out to fetch the firewood, the woman that goes out to fetch water, and this over long distances. There’s actually a phrase for it: ‘time poverty’ – and women suffer huge time poverty, because they’re the homemakers, they run businesses, and they also have to do all this demanding domestic work that the men don’t have to do.”

“When there’s no electricity, women get beaten more.”

“We can’t just have one huge monolith of the national grid. It doesn’t work; it hasn’t worked.”