{"id":3742,"date":"2015-06-04T21:09:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T04:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/?p=3742"},"modified":"2015-06-04T21:09:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T04:09:21","slug":"akons-solar-academy-will-supply-electricity-to-600-million-people-in-africa-via-pastemagazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/akons-solar-academy-will-supply-electricity-to-600-million-people-in-africa-via-pastemagazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Akon&#8217;s Solar Academy Will Supply Electricity to 600 Million People in Africa via PasteMagazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AkonUN.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AkonUN.jpg\" alt=\"AkonUN\" width=\"600\" height=\"396\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3743\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Akon\u2019s back, but this time he\u2019s got his eye on more than just the smash single of the summer.<\/p>\n<p>The Sengalese-American singer announced on Thursday that he\u2019s launching a new \u201cSolar Academy\u201d in Africa as part of his Akon Lighting Africa initiative, which aims to provide electricity to 600 million people across the continent, according to a Reuters report. The academy is set to open in Bamako, the capital of Mali, this summer, and will teach African engineers and entrepreneurs how to produce solar power. European experts will be on hand to help with training and equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The academy\u2019s main goal is teaching participants how to install and maintain solar-powered electricity and microgrids, which Akon Lighting Africa says \u201care really taking off in Africa.\u201d Harnessing solar power is the ideal way for those without electricity to obtain it, because Africa has 320 days of sunshine a year. \u201cWe have the sun and innovative technologies to bring electricity to homes and communities. We now need to consolidate African expertise,\u201d said Samba Baithily, who founded Akon Lighting Africa with Akon and Thione Niang.<\/p>\n<p>With 70 percent of Africans younger than 35, there is a huge need for sustainable jobs, and the organization hopes their efforts will reap long-term benefits. \u201cWe expect the Africans who graduate from this center to devise new, innovative, technical solutions,\u201d Niang said. \u201cWith this Academy, we can capitalize on Akon Lighting Africa and go further.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is refreshing. Usually you hear news of artist doing shady stuff or getting into trouble or who they are sleeping with, but this is a great thing that Akon is doing for his country. Giving back is always great, and with Akon&#8217;s solar academy he will be helping so many people. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">Akon\u2019s back, but this time he\u2019s got his eye on more than just the smash single of the summer. The Sengalese-American singer announced on Thursday that he\u2019s launching a new&hellip;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[400,7,2203],"tags":[2714,2711,2712,592,2713,1031,138,35],"views":926,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3744,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions\/3744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}