As the streets of Kampala, Uganda come to life early in the morning, Dorothy Namawejje fastens her helmet and revs the engine of her electric motorcycle. Namawejje, a single mother of two, is a taxi driver who ferries passengers around the city’s frenetic roads, her bike humming quietly beneath her.
The job pays well above what she was making a few years ago as a traffic warden. But more than that, Namawejje considers herself a pioneer in a country where motorcycle taxi drivers are almost always men.
“Before, I feared the road. Now, I own my future,” she says.
Namawejje is one of a growing number of African women who are finding work in the fast-growing electric vehicle industry and its offshoots.
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