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In Waiting for Light in N’Djamena, Chinese researcher Aidan Huang explores life in N’Djamena, Chad’s capital, through her experience of the country’s failing electricity system, where blackouts reshape everything from water access and housing to business and social relationships. Drawing on her time in N’Djamena and conversations with Chinese traders, entrepreneurs and residents navigating the city’s unreliable power grid, Huang reveals how people piece together stability through solar lamps, generators, and fragile social arrangements, and how the absence of reliable electricity quietly impacts business, relationships and everyday life.

Read it here.

Winnie Obunabor
Associate Social Media Editor, The Republic