Mobile Phone Technology: Coping Strategies in African Cultural Practice

The notion that civilization must come from abroad pervaded Africa at the dawn of Ghana’s independence, as was made clear in the expositions of clergy men of the Gold Coast, like Attoh Ahuma, who though proud of African culture, saw in westernization the way out of the darkest Africa. “The impenetrable jungle around us, he said is not darker than the primeval forest of the human mind uncultured” (Ahuma, 1911, p. 11). Thus Africa had to emerge from the savage backwoods and come into the open where nations were made (Davidson, 1992, p. 39).