Background
Currently in Sub-Saharan Africa, households rely on costly, inefficient, and often hazardous fuel-based products such as kerosene lamps that consume up to 30% of total household incomes. Despite these high costs, fossil fuel-based lighting is not efficient and the quality of the lighting is poor.
The Lighting Africa 2010 Conference is the only event of its kind to bring together international lighting manufacturers and local distributors in Africa for the design, development, and marketing of low cost, energy efficient lighting products tailored to low income consumer needs and conditions. This will be the second event of its kind, the first having been held in Accra, Ghana, in May 2008.