Ghana: The Dance Of The Crab

…With sitting and sleeping rooms usually stuffy and unbearably warm, due to the power cuts, we often only manage a snooze before dawn. We, however, get a fantastic compensation for the previous night


I was at the Ministries in Accra last week to make some official enquiries. In some departments which had been cut off from power supply, civil servants were grilling slowly like tilapia in the suffocating confines of small offices, morosely fanning themselves with old file covers and sheets of A-4 paper.

In one office, a despondent lady behind a PC waved a delicate hand at the disabled machine and explained apologetically to several people that she was unable to access data and process information they had come to take delivery of, because power had been cut off.

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