Africa is on the cusp of a transformation that can power the continent's own healthy, sustainable development and boost climate action worldwide - but it needs finance to make this promise a reality.
The answer: a mass, widespread rollout of clean, flexible, homegrown renewable energy across the rural and urban communities alike.
Renewables are the golden thread that will enable the African continent to confront, and overcome, the multiple crises hitting its people at the same time - from energy poverty, to rising unemployment, to critical education needs, to vast gaps in electricity supply, to an increasingly hostile climate.