Power with Pupose: Genser Energy featured in MIT Review
- annaklapper
- Aug 25
- 1 min read
Updated: Oct 8
Baafour Asiamah-Adjei ’03 is working to transform West Africa’s energy landscape—and investing in the people who will shape the region’s future.
Baafour Asiamah-Adjei ’03 is the founder and CEO of one of Ghana’s largest private power companies, Genser Energy—an entrepreneurial engineer who aims to deliver sustainable energy across West Africa. And he credits MIT with much of his success. But when he was applying to colleges, the Institute wasn’t even on his radar. The son of an encouraging primary school teacher in Tafo, Ghana, he’d earned a spot at the storied Achimota School and excelled. Still, he didn’t think he was smart enough for MIT.
Asiamah-Adjei was accepted to Lehigh University, where he planned to major in engineering. But when he went to the US embassy in Accra for his mandatory meeting with Nancy Keteku, then the regional educational advising coordinator for West and Central Africa, the first thing she said was “You got a perfect score on your SAT. Why didn’t you apply to MIT?”
August 26, 2025