A dam for Africa: Akosombo stories from Ghana
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Bloomington, Indiana
Indiana University Press
[2022]
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| Abstract: | Introduction -- The Volta River Project -- The Volta River Project and the Promise of Modernization -- "Nkrumah's Baby": Negotiating and Building Akosombo -- The Volta Aluminum Company -- VALCO -- Working on VALCO's American Island -- Settlements of Modernization -- "No One Should Be Worse Off": Resettlement -- Building the City of the Future -- Power Struggles -- Waiting for Light: Stories of Rural Electrification -- Electricity Politics, Droughts, Self-Help -- Epilogue. "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: | Includes bibliographical references and index 2205 |
| Umfang: | xxi, 572 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9780253059970 9780253059956 |
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| 520 | 3 | |a "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"-- | |
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| spelling | Miescher, Stephan F. 1961- Verfasser (DE-588)173815324 aut A dam for Africa Akosombo stories from Ghana Stephan F. Miescher Bloomington, Indiana Indiana University Press [2022] ©2022 xxi, 572 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index 2205 Introduction -- The Volta River Project -- The Volta River Project and the Promise of Modernization -- "Nkrumah's Baby": Negotiating and Building Akosombo -- The Volta Aluminum Company -- VALCO -- Working on VALCO's American Island -- Settlements of Modernization -- "No One Should Be Worse Off": Resettlement -- Building the City of the Future -- Power Struggles -- Waiting for Light: Stories of Rural Electrification -- Electricity Politics, Droughts, Self-Help -- Epilogue. "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"-- Volta River Project (Ghana) / History Dams / Ghana / Volta River Valley Water resources development / Ghana / Volta River Valley Electric power production / Ghana Akosombo Dam (Ghana) / History Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe 9780253059963 |
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