I was in Ghana and one of things I experienced were the power cuts.  Technical reasons were given from above and we had to grin and bear it.  We had 12 hours off during the day and 12 hours off during the night on alternate days sometimes every two days. The common phrase now is "do you have lights?". 

Most people have an electricity schedule stuck up somewhere in their house or office and its not always accurate.  The official term is "Load Shedding" but when the lights go out unexpectedly on your day on it is called "Lights Off".  Now we all rush to do ironing, cooking, emailing before the deadline and its funny to see people rushing home cos lights will come on at 6pm.  We get up at 4am to do things before they go out at 6am.  Somehow it is always accurate when it should go off but takes about 3 hours later than scheduled to come on. 

 Who do you complain to?  Everyone is going through it and the in thing now is to have a generator.  Conversations are geared to how many KV you have and,  how much they cost and whether diesel is better than petrol........If you want to visit someone in the evening you ask "Do you have lights".

Different areas of the same town rotate so you find people rushing to Zone A to browse in a cafe  and later on rushing to Zone B to continue browsing..........  Much as it is annoying and causing many to lose business income, it has spiced up life and made people laugh at the nonsense going on around them....  My question is.... with all the sunshine why isnt solar made more availbe to the country???????/

To Solar or not to solar....that is the question