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What is Accra Pictures by Day and Night?

Accra is the capital of the small, West African country of Ghana, which achieved its independence in 1957 from its colonial master, the United Kingdom. It celebrated 50 years in 2007, and is projecting itself fast and furiously as "gateway to West Africa".

It's an exciting city, with its unique problems, but with it close to the Atlantic ocean, and many beaches, who can resist coming here?




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Friday, August 24, 2007

Generators in Accra no More?


For the past two weeks, many parts of Accra has been enjoying many days without interruption of electricity. This contrasts starkly with personal anecdotes last year which run like this:



Accra is in the Dark Ages.



Ever since the load-shedding started, the country’s electricity provider ECG, has decided to ride on the back of the "load management programme" by continuing to deliver increasingly execrable service.

Yesterday, on an evening that was not supposed to experience load-shedding at 6pm, the lights went out, eliciting a collective sigh of resignation and frustration all-rolled-in-one. Calls were made, and it transpired that there was "a fault" in one of the stations near the motorway of Tema. Later, I found out that it wasn’t quite near the motorway, but somewhere around Tema. Not to mention the lack of consistency in the lies (you don’t even know where the genesis of the so-called fault is?) but to buttress all that is the frustration associated with feeling the lights will come on soon when you call, only to find out that the problem has not finished being worked on!
from: http://ekbensahinghana.blogspot.com/2006/10/darkness-falls-in-accra-1.html



This generator outside is reminiscent of many scenes all over the capital up until some two weeks ago. I can say with certainty that last night, the electricity was suposed to go off. Pleasurably, it did not.

Normality in the offing?

3 comments:

peculiar VIrtue said...

So Ghana waits until AFTER I leave to restore full power?!?! *hmph*

:op

Oh yeah, and one more thing: consider yourself 'tagged'. See my blog for details.

Emmanuel.K.Bensah II said...

Adam--SPAM be-gone!!!

Peculiar--i'm on my way down there;-) Hope yo're chilling?

Ann (MobayDP) said...

Ha! This sounds like you might be writing from Jamaica :-D

Our public service company has put us on advance warning that they will have "load shedding" later this year becaue of some problems that they foresee happening at some later point in the year. ;-/

Oh the woes of living in a third world, poor (and apparently broke) country!

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