Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a Substack post by economist/entrepreneur Skander Garroum:
You know that feeling when you’re waiting for the cable guy, and they said ‘between 8am and 6pm, and you waste your entire day, and they never show up? Now imagine that, except the cable guy is ‘electricity,’ the day is ’50 years,’ and you’re one of 600 million people. At some point, you stop waiting and figure it out yourself.
What’s happening across Sub-Saharan Africa…

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