In the Dark in Nigeria (2023)

Focus: The psychological toll of infrastructure deficits

Summary:
With In the Dark in Nigeria, I draw attention to the emotional and psychological costs of Nigeria’s chronic electricity failures. How taking the light shapes our daily rhythms, capacity, and even how we perceive time and connection. Light as visibility, as relief, and as power.

“In colloquial Nigerian, we do not speak of ‘blackouts’, ‘power cuts’ or ‘load-shedding’. We generally simply say: “There is no light.” And we mean light as in ‘to make things visible’, light as in relief from a burden, light as energy, and light as power, all at once. All the connotations of ‘light’ combine to draw a fuller picture of the multiple dimensions of energy poverty.”

In the Dark in Nigeria (2023)

The Moral Architecture of Infrastructure