A dam for Africa :: Akosombo stories from Ghana /
"Since its construction in the early 1960s, the hydroelectric Akosombo Dam across the Volta River has become one of the most controversial sites in Ghana. Drawing upon a wealth of sources, A Dam for Africa tells in detail for the first time the story of this dam that has so profoundly helped an...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Since its construction in the early 1960s, the hydroelectric Akosombo Dam across the Volta River has become one of the most controversial sites in Ghana. Drawing upon a wealth of sources, A Dam for Africa tells in detail for the first time the story of this dam that has so profoundly helped and hurt a nation for 60 years. A rock-filled embankment dam, Akosombo stands 370 feet high and on its crest runs 2,100 feet long. It was the keystone of the Volta River Project, which included a large manmade lake 250 miles long, the VALCO aluminum smelter, new cities and towns, a deep-sea harbor, and an electrical grid. On the local level, Akosombo meant access to electricity for people in urban areas across southern Ghana. For others, Akosombo inflicted tremendous social and environmental costs. The dam altered the ecology of the Lower Volta, displaced 80,000 people in the Volta Basin, and impacted the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Ghanaians. In A Dam for Africa, historian Stephan Miescher explores the three narratives that weave together around Akosombo: the international efforts of the American aluminum industry in building the dam and benefiting from it through subsidizing the VALCO aluminum smelter, the Ghanaian nation-wide drive toward electrification, and the many local stories of upheaval and devastation in the 52 resettlement towns, where those in the Lower Volta remain bitter about failed promises, state neglect, and ecological changes"-- |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (xxi, 572 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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| title_sort | dam for africa akosombo stories from ghana |
| title_sub | Akosombo stories from Ghana / |
| topic | Volta River Project (Ghana) History. Volta River Project (Ghana) fast Dams Ghana Volta River Valley. Water resources development Ghana Volta River Valley. Electric power production Ghana. Barrages Ghāna Volta, Vallée de la. Ressources en eau Exploitation Ghāna Volta, Vallée de la. Électricité Production Ghāna. HISTORY / Africa / West bisacsh Dams fast Electric power production fast Water resources development fast |
| topic_facet | Volta River Project (Ghana) History. Volta River Project (Ghana) Dams Ghana Volta River Valley. Water resources development Ghana Volta River Valley. Electric power production Ghana. Akosombo Dam (Ghana) History. Barrages Ghāna Volta, Vallée de la. Ressources en eau Exploitation Ghāna Volta, Vallée de la. Électricité Production Ghāna. Akosombo Dam (Ghāna) Histoire. HISTORY / Africa / West Dams Electric power production Water resources development Ghana Ghana Akosombo Dam Ghana Volta River Valley History |
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