DUMSOR

We are curious how many know what this means ? We experience it a lot in #ghana and when you have no #generator or #solar you are simply in the dark. #poverty has different looks. 

#underdevelopment has many faces

but no electricity has many names and #dumsor is one. 

#accra #economics #nochoices #africa.

Check out what wikipedia has to say about it…

In Ghana, dumsor (Akan pronunciation: [dum sɔ] ‘off and on’) is a persistent, irregular, and unpredictable electric power outage.^[1] The frequent Ghanaian blackouts are caused by power supply shortage. Ghanaian generating capacity is currently 400-600 megawatts less than Ghana needs.^[2] Ghanaian electricity distributors regularly shed load with rolling blackouts.^[3]

At the beginning of 2015, the dumsor schedule went from 24 hours with light and 12 without to 12 hours with light and 24 without.^[1][4] The long blackouts contrast with the practice in other countries, where blackouts roll rapidly so that no residential area is without power for more than one hour at a time.^[5][6]

The re-introduction of dumsor in 2019 without publishing the requisite load shedding schedule came along with the term dumsaa^[7] meaning off for a considerably long time or off all the time