I went to Egypt about 15 years ago. Part of our tour was a visit to an Ethiopian village somewhere down past Aswan. I've no idea whether it was genuine or a set piece. It was fairly primitive, but it had electricity.
I saw a pair of thin wires I first took to be telephone coming to insulators on one of houses only about seven or eight feet from the ground near the doorway. I could easily have reached up to them!
Following their path, they were connected to fluorescent battens inside! There were also refrigerators and TVs but I couldn't see how power was distributed.
Another original installation I spotted was a street market lit by large pendants suspended straight off the overhead distribution cables connecting nearby buildings.
