In this paper, drawing from ethnographic work on Tanzania’s solar energy landscape, including 50 unstructured interviews with Maasai herders, city-dwellers of Arusha, Tanzania, and representatives from foreign solar energy firms, I show how the Maasai reconfigure. .
In this paper, drawing from ethnographic work on Tanzania’s solar energy landscape, including 50 unstructured interviews with Maasai herders, city-dwellers of Arusha, Tanzania, and representatives from foreign solar energy firms, I show how the Maasai reconfigure. .
Solar energy development in Tanzania is steeped in discourses of Western technological transfer whereby the devices themselves are lauded as central innovating agents—the “doers”—that are solutions to local poverty. The trend intensifies in Maasai spaces, where a long history of marginalization in. .
The Maasai Stoves & Solar Project of the International Collaborative designs and installs smoke-removing and efficient wood-burning chimney stoves and solar panel-based electrical systems in the people’s homes. We also install settlement-wide solar panel-based micro-grid electrical systems for. .
In Tanzania, an international collaborative called the Maasai Stoves and Solar Project has begun to change that norm by introducing the use of clean-energy cookstoves and solar power to the Maasai community. The project trains women to distribute and install cookstoves and solar panels in their. .
Stovesandsolar micro-gridfortwo Maasaivillages. ProjectLocation: ThevillagesofMti MmojaandOrkatanin theMondulidistrict, eastofthefamous Serengetinational park. ProjectSummary: Installstovesand solarmicro-gridsto Maasaihomes. ProjectDetail: Eachhome(16)will receiveastove. Each villagewillsharea. .
Maasai women of Olorgesailie Kenya take the lead in designing renewable energy installations for their homesteads. The artisans asked if it was possible to integrate the technology into the items (such as jewelery and belts) that they wear daily. A sketching session on our first day revealed a. .
Renewable energy developer Green Energy Africa provides the group with solar products - including solar panels, lights, and small rechargeable batteries - at a discount. The women sell the products at a profit of around 300 shillings ($3) each, which goes into the group's account to buy more stock.
