New Wine Versus Old Wine: Internet Praxis Begets New Social Reality of Power Relations between the Young and the Old in the Swedru Municipality

The fear of challenging the status quo compels the elderly in the Swedru Municipality to condemn youth involved in the Internet fraud phenomenon. This argument is best understood considering the discourse of Ghanaian society which uses culture and tradition to mute otherwise brilliant ideas and ingenuity of young people. In spite of the endemic nature of Internet scams, young people engaged in the Internet fraud praxis seem to have couched a new sub-cultural life imbued with a new sociality of power. Author thus submits that people believe that the adult population's phobia could be as a result of some underlying reasons known only to them.