KIPTUSURI, Kenya — For Sara Ruto, the desperate yearning for electricity began last year with the purchase of her first cellphone, a lifeline for receiving small money transfers, contacting relatives in the city or checking chicken prices at the nearest market. Solar power for Ms. Ruto’s hut in Kiptusuri, Kenya, means her toddlers no longer [...]

“We are permitted no Books but such as tend to the weakening and Effeminateing the Mind, our Natural Defects are every way indulg’d, and tis look’d upon as in a degree Criminal to improve our Reason, or fancy we have any. We are taught to place all our Art in adorning our Outward Forms, and [...]