Voices of Dumsor: Rising above the political din, calling for answers

dum /duːm/ (v. trans.): To turn off or extinguish.

so(r) /sɔː/ (adj.): On, to be switched on.The Akan Learner's Dictionary: Akan-English & English-Akan  (2012)

The Akan Learner's Dictionary: Akan-English & English-Akan  (2012)

A group of young Ghanaian men hand me a flyer depicting Jesus on the cross, being kissed on the face by white children. The flyer reads, "DUMSOR MUST STOP! IN JESUS NAME." It was from something called the Faith Open Heaven University.

"If the President cannot fix the dumsor, maybe Jesus can," offers their spokesman. "Why not?"

Gillbert, who pulls me from the path of an oncoming taxi on Legon Road, is a 20-year-old chemistry student at the University of Ghana. He lives with his three brothers, two sisters and several extended famil