ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the growing literature on energy geographies to better account for the lived experiences of infrastructure and the incremental reshaping of urban worlds. It focuses on the specific geographical context of postcolonial Accra and its electricity system. This is undertaken through an examination of incremental and lived experiences of energy in one particular neighbourhood of the city, Ga Mashie, a low income, centrally located 'popular neighbourhood' with both formal and informal infrastructure conditions. The chapter outlines the imperatives associated with urban energy in sub-Saharan Africa and the necessity of researching and contributing toward debates focused on the incremental nature of energy geographies. It provides an overview of the neighbourhood of Ga Mashie. The chapter examines the lived experiences of infrastructure in the area in detail. It argues that the development of an explicitly geographical perspective on energy must take seriously incrementalism.
