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ENERGY SOLUTIONS FOR THE FUTURE
FARMING
WITH GREEN ENERGY
IN CAMEROON
Photo credit: Soukaina Bouba Dalil’s
Soukaïna Bouba Dalil is a young
Cameroonian engineer & activist.
She has founded a company, Energie
d’Afrique, to encourage the installation
of solar panels, solar pumping systems,
and the supply of biogas from household
and livestock waste to small-sized farms.
Her ambition is to encourage energy selfsufficiency for off-grid farms at a low cost
with a focus on women empowerment.
“Women are struggling to
get by and generate income
because of the lack of access
to energy. As a woman, and
as an engineer, I decided with
my team to give them the
concrete means to have an
income generating activity.“
Soukaina Bouba Dalil’s
CEO of Energie d’Afrique
This inspired young engineer launched
Energie d’Afrique in 2018. Her initial
objective was to provide clean energy in
the Northern region of her home country,
Cameroon, in a context of energy scarcity.
More precisely, she designed a simple,
affordable, more adapted system of
solar and biomass devices to provide
enough energy to run a large farm. She
now has the ambition to develop outside
Cameroon and to provide these clean
energy devices throughout Central Africa.
As her company successfully grows,
Soukaïna manages to provide green
energy to large farms with simpler, more
adapted systems based on unlimited
resources like the sun and green waste.
In providing this affordable green energy,
Soukeïna also intends to strengthen food
access and food security among isolated
communities. As the need for energy is
constantly growing, and will continue to
do so, she makes green energy available
and affordable for farmers and their
communities. She also has the ambition
to create green jobs and create a longlasting impact on the communities she
works with.
Soukaïna Bouba Dalil is also committed to
women empowerment. Through training
and workshops, she encourages young
women to get involved in science to face
the challenges posed by global warming
and the energy crisis. She calls on young
women to study and engage not only in
science, but also in communication and
information dissemination, so that they
can play a major role in turning Africa into
a major and sustainable economic power.
Photo credit: Soukaina Bouba Dalil’s
Photo credit: innovation-village.com
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“Our ambition is to supply
the entire Central African
sub-region with energy
from renewable and
sustainable resources. We
want to make the costs very
accessible and popularize
green technologies. We
want to open long-term
training centers to ensure
skills transfer and reduce
unemployment.“
Soukaina Bouba Dalil’s
Energie d’Afrique CEO
