Dar es Salaam, July 23 -- Tanzania, “lights out” was not just a bedtime routine, it was a lifestyle. Families huddled around kerosene lamps, students squinted at homework lit by candlelight, and chickens slept soundly knowing that no refrigerator would ever threaten their leftovers. But today, things are changing, and not just by a flick of a switch.

Welcome to Tanzanias quietest revolution, one not led by megaphones or political rallies, but by something even more powerful: power itself. Quite literally.

Thanks to a determined government, a visionary president, and a Rural Energy Agency (REA) that clearly missed the memo on moving slowly, electricity is finally going where it used to fear to tread, that is the deep, dusty h...