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Akon Visits Liberia To Install Electricity At Primary Schools

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Senegalese-born hip-hop musician Akon was yesterday in Liberia to install solar electricity at two primary schools in the West African country.

It is a piece of his Lighting Africa venture to convey power to 600 million individuals over the mainland. 

In this occurrence he has banded together up with Bridge International Academies, which, in relationship with other worldwide associations, is behind a pilot extend in Liberia to run 50 government junior schools. 

As his motorcade crashed into the capital, Monrovia, under police escort, the performer said it was "insane" that he couldn't see a solitary road light on the 50km (32-mile) street from the airplane terminal. 

Akon told the BBC that he was moved by the strength of the Liberian individuals following 14 years of common war and the late Ebola scourge. 

"Many people don't understand that the general population create nations; all administration does is to attempt to deal with the procedure; and in Africa we have an inclination of suspecting that the legislature does everything for us." 

"This is our nation, we need to live in it, we need to rest, we have wake up in similar environment, so we must be the ones to make that environment for ourselves; and we can't put it on government," he said 

The performer said Africans ought to look past race and address the landmass' instruction and different issues. 

"It's not a dark or white issue; it is an African issue," he said. 

Furthermore, he advised school kids in Liberia to consider their learning important, saying: 

"We as a whole advantage in the event that we are instructed."

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