https://ourworldindata.org/battery-price-decline

https://developmentreimagined.com/infographic-exploring-afri...

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/72h/hourly (center map on Africa)

Africa is leapfrogging legacy electrical infra models, and likely has no need for the legacy model of centralized generation and long haul transmission to load centers.

(the battery costs in the Our World in Data citation are already out of date, and as of 2023, the average global price of batteries was $95/kWh, see https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-07-09/china-... | https://archive.today/DklaA for more)