The Internet Outage in Ghana (Day 2)
The current internet outage makes it clear how this service has become a standard amenity, akin to electricity, even here in Africa. DUMSOR, INTERNET STYLE Some years ago I worked at an internet cafe. The situation was such that often, my colleauges and I would use the workplace to hustle for our daily bread. So imagine you wake up in the morning, use your last money to get to the office, hoping and praying that you'll be able to make some dough, and bam, the electricity is off. Not only that, but it's off for the entire day. That was something we experienced semi-regularly. I recently heard a local politician try to argue that dumsor did not began until the NDC years (i.e. the early 2010s), and I was thinking to myself that he must've not been around during the Kufuor era. Of course, many of us continue to depend on electricty for our livlihoods. For example, there are some welders who live nearby, and when the lights go off during these current days of ...