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

Mr Aggrey, Kwesi
Senior Lecturer/Head of Department
  kaggrey@uew.edu.gh

Authors
Aggrey, K.
Publication Year
2024
Article Title
New Wine Versus Old Wine: Internet Praxis Begets New Social Reality of Power Relations between the Young and the Old in the Swedru Municipality
Book Title
Political Economy of Contemporary African Popular Culture: The Political Interplay
Page Numbers
311 - 327
Place
London
Publisher
Lexington Books
Editors
K. Aiseng, I. A. Fadipe, & P. Mpofu
Abstract

The fear of challenging the status quo compels the elderly in the Swedru Municipality to condemn the 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. 

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