Photograph Young men, referred to as cafe men or browsers, trawl online searching for ‘clients’ in an internet cafe from the borders of Accra.

Photograph Young men, referred to as cafe men or browsers, trawl online searching for ‘clients’ in an internet cafe from the borders of Accra.

In a stuffed net cafe in an industrial city west of Accra, we look for teenage young men and teenagers while in front of every screen, signed in on paid dating sites under names like Jessica, Martha and Jennifer.

The teens, renowned in Ghana as ‘cafe guys’ or ‘browsers’, are trying to find old and older men in the usa, Australian Continent and Canada, and enticing them to chat on Google Hangouts. Leia mais