Honestly, its probably just a nitpick, but its mostly a framing thing.

The only distinction here is that in Africa, this is mostly about access to energy (which is one of the key factors in standard of living increases), whereas in most of the "Global North" renewables are mostly about reducing energy consumption (via efficiency) and consuming it in ways that don't impact the environment as much (i.e. replacing the same amount of fossil fuel derived energy).

The primary benefit here is that people who couldn't access energy before now can. They aren't really offsetting emissions because there wasn't a previously established fossil fuel energy generation capacity that was generating nearly as much energy as the new solar capacity is.

Either way, the human livelihood benefits are amazing and it is good that we can get them without expanding fossil fuels. Its good on both sides and entirely a framing nitpick on my part.