“I am Johnny and I am a military man in the US. Sometimes I’m in Palestine, sometimes I’m in Iraq and we are helping to keep peace in that country because there’s a war going on and all that. So that’s my main occupation online. I search for clients. I want somebody to be my lover, my fiancé and all that.”
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Smartphones are very common in Ghana. Despite the constant complains of economic hardship by its citizens, finding a smartphone that supports Facebook is an easy task. However, there are young men (and sometimes women) spending a huge percentage of their 24 hours in internet cafés. They basically live there, day and night.
Conversations around spending so much time in internet cafés have mostly been linked to being on Facebook and ‘chatting’. Deep down the situation, it is the entry-level point of online scamming, a scheme popularly known in Ghana as Sakawa.
Conversations around spending so much time in internet cafés have mostly been linked to being on Facebook and ‘chatting’. Deep down the situation, it is the entry-level point of online scamming, a scheme popularly known in Ghana as Sakawa.
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