(And, no, they don't rush out to repair the frequent outages).
No food shortages were reported, and electricity, which suffers frequent outages even during normal times, remained sporadic.
A single mother, she helps her daughter with her homework by candle light during the frequent outages in the capital.
Shopping malls, which are air-conditioned and often have their own generators to keep customers cool during frequent outages, recorded a surge in visitors.
A near collapse of the grid in January 2008 eased into less frequent outages by April, and by the time of the 2010 football World Cup, blackouts had become nothing but a bad memory.
Fewer than a quarter of African roads are paved, according to the International Road Federation, and many of Jumia Group's core markets, including Nigeria, Kenya, and Egypt, struggle with access to electricity and frequent outages.
Like Ilufoye, he is frustrated by structural limitations: he could handle a capacity of one ton a day, but he can't afford a generator to keep his machines running during the frequent outages.
Big American utilities have little interest in teaming up with nuclear vendors to mount joint bids abroad; Japanese ones have a distressing record of falsified inspection reports and frequent outages.
As recently as May citizens of the financial and port city of Karachi thronged the streets and attacked a government electricity office because of long and frequent outages.
It is inadequate and unreliable, posing significant challenges to economic growth; frequent outages hamper investment and disrupt manufacturing, education, and health services (World Bank 2012a, 2012b).
