The well-known Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
highlights the stark challenges posed by poor infrastructure in developing
countries:
Adichie observes:
“I cannot help but
wonder how many medical catastrophes have occurred in public hospitals because
of “no light,” how much agricultural produce has gone to waste, how many
students forced to study in stuffy, hot air have failed exams, how many small
businesses have foundered. What greatness have we lost, what brilliance
stillborn? I wonder, too, how differently our national character might have
been shaped, had we been a nation with children who took light for granted,
instead of a nation whose toddlers learn to squeal with pleasure at the
infrequent lighting of a bulb.”