Connectivity, a nightmare in Cameroon!

Dearest readers, i know i’m not speaking for everyone from Cameroon, but i believe a  greater deal of the porpulation will agree with these facts i’m about to expose.You know we all love to be connected.It could be with our family members, friends or business associates, but what if connectivity becomes an impossibility?read further to find out.

About ten years ago, people in the cities of Cameroon like Yaounde and Douala, started using cyber cafés, and so the internet started spreading, but poor me! i came from a little village without electricity, so when i came to study in Yaounde, i started using the internet to send emails to my sister who was already living here in the Netherlands.Can you believe that i couldn’t type?, so the employees at the cyber café had to type my mail  for a  long time and after a  while, i started doing that my self but very slowly.

Now that you have heard how backward i was as far as modern technology was concerned, i would love you to know how connectivity has hindered the growth of our African market at large and Cameroon in particular.In most parts of my country, there is no electricity, and the parts with electricity can’t handle the growing consuming population, which means the lights have to be destributed.Now, you are sitting in a cyber café chating with a  friend, and pap! the lights go off.Not only will you lost connectivity, but the person on the other end will consider you a  bad person or a  rude person, until you inform them about two days later, that the electricity was disconnected.This is the same thing with mobile phones and bad roads.You want to schedule a  meeting with your employees for an example, but most of them live in areas where there is no mobile connectivity, so you send someone to inform them individually, which will delay your plans because even the roads are badly damaged, so you either end up with three out of your ten staff members, or you postpone the meeting, which is why my country falls among the underdeveloped countries in the world.

Please if you are reading this, know that i want to be able to live in a  place where connectivity is possible, but how do you do that if you can’t?my prayer is that one day, we will be able to forgive our African friends who have not been able to respond to  mails or phone calls, its just because connectivity is bad. May be when connectivity becomes a possibility, we will all be one big family again.¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡