Across sub-Saharan Africa, where nearly 600 million people still wake without electricity, a quiet but consequential realignment is underway. Driven by the twin shocks of geopolitical instability and the dramatic collapse in renewable energy costs, African governments are increasingly turning toward Chinese-backed clean energy systems rather than the fossil fuel pathways long promoted by Western powers. This pivot is less a sudden choice than the convergence of necessity and opportunity — a continent rich in solar, wind, and geothermal potential finding, at last, that the economics and the pol