IEEE Smart Village Is Helping to Electrify Rural Cameroon

IEEE Smart Village Is Helping to Electrify Rural Cameroon

More than 30 years ago, in the mountain village of Mbem in northwest Cameroon, the moon and stars in the night sky were the only light young Jude Numfor knew after the sunset. Electricity had not yet reached his rural community.“There was one person in the village with a petrol generator and a small television,” Numfor says. “When he turned it on, all the children would run to his house and peep through the window.”That memory became the spark f…