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a technicality…
I am around Accra this week, surveying (conveniently) the internet cafes in my own neighbourhood, Kokomlemle. View Larger Map So far, I have interviewed 13. There should be 17 or so in all. Then on to...
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achievement!
In the course of my research in Ghana so far, I have travelled about 100,000 square km of country, had malaria three times, been robbed twice (three times if you count the police), met hundreds of...
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sakawa! no, really! sakawa!
Over the last year, Ghana has experienced a wave of anxiety about sakawa – internet fraud. The fraud has been going on much longer, but there is a noticeable uptick in the level of public hysteria at...
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Obamamania
Obama was in Accra this weekend. Sheer madness. The insanity started a month before – Obama t-shirts appeared, and columns in the newspapers meditated on the significance of his choosing Ghana. But...
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ICT4D
As anyone who reads the Times knows by now, there is an international investigation going on about e-waste. The Times published a story exposing the illegal transporting of defunct computers and other...
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how the bumblebee flies
As I continue my survey of internet cafes here in Accra, one question keeps recurring. How can these small businesses survive, let along turn a profit? 15 so far in Kokomlemle and 11 in Adabraka, the...
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