Newsweek International

Rising With Keyboards

Francis Quartey is building an army of young men and women and preparing to storm Accra, the capital of Ghana. His uniform may not be typical: he wears glasses and a suit. And his soldiers use motherboards, not machetes. But his objective is nonetheless revolutionary.

Quartey wants to take Ghana into the high-speed communications age. Educated in Britain and America, the 36-year-old Quartey spent eight years working for AT&T in the United States before returning to his native country in 1994.… more