At a small market in Magboro, Ogun state, a thick blue-grey haze of woodsmoke drifts from two blackened metal drums, curling into the air and partially swallowing the woman standing behind them. Temitope Adeola is sorting through panla — hake fish, dried and curled into tight circles — arranging them on a makeshift counter lined with brown cardboard. Inside her stall sits a white chest freezer.
Its lid is stained brown, scuffed along the edges, and streaked with what looks like the beginning of rust. It has the look of something that once had ambitions, but it is not connected to solar power or any power at all.
The cable
