A Dam For Africa
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A Dam For Africa
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Author : Stephan F. Miescher
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2022-07-12
A Dam For Africa written by Stephan F. Miescher and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-12 with History categories.
Since its construction in the early 1960s, the hydroelectric Akosombo Dam across the Volta River has exemplified the possibilities and challenges of development in Ghana. Drawing upon a wealth of sources, A Dam for Africa investigates contrasting stories about how this dam has transformed a West African nation, while providing a model for other African countries. The massive Akosombo Dam is the keystone of the Volta River Project that includes 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 has meant access to electricity for people in urban and industrial 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 affected the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Ghanaians. In A Dam for Africa, Stephan Miescher explores four intersecting narratives: Ghanaian debates and aspirations about modernization in the context of decolonization and Cold War; international efforts of the US aluminum industry to benefit from Akosombo through cheap electricity for their VALCO smelter; local stories of upheaval and devastation in resettlement towns; and a nation-wide quest toward electrification and energy justice during times of economic crises, droughts, and climate change.
A Dam For Africa
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Author : Stephan F. Miescher
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2022-07-12
A Dam For Africa written by Stephan F. Miescher and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-12 with History categories.
Since its construction in the early 1960s, the hydroelectric Akosombo Dam across the Volta River has exemplified the possibilities and challenges of development in Ghana. Drawing upon a wealth of sources, A Dam for Africa investigates contrasting stories about how this dam has transformed a West African nation, while providing a model for other African countries. The massive Akosombo Dam is the keystone of the Volta River Project that includes 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 has meant access to electricity for people in urban and industrial 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 affected the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Ghanaians. In A Dam for Africa, Stephan Miescher explores four intersecting narratives: Ghanaian debates and aspirations about modernization in the context of decolonization and Cold War; international efforts of the US aluminum industry to benefit from Akosombo through cheap electricity for their VALCO smelter; local stories of upheaval and devastation in resettlement towns; and a nation-wide quest toward electrification and energy justice during times of economic crises, droughts, and climate change.
Dams In Africa Cb
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Author : Neville Rubin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-04-04
Dams In Africa Cb written by Neville Rubin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-04 with Science categories.
First published in 1968. The present volume originated in a seminar which was conducted at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London during the 1965-66 academic session. With the possible exception of railways, there have been no projects in Africa of comparable size and implications to the giant dams, involving as they do such un-paralleled commitment of resources, with corresponding social, political and legal consequences. Some of these consequences have been considered in the essays presented here, both in the specific context of particular projects and as in the more general context of comparative surveys, by experts who were (with two exceptions) present at the seminar.
Dams In Africa
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Author : Neville Ruben
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 1968
Dams In Africa written by Neville Ruben and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Business & Economics categories.
First published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Decision Support Systems For Large Dam Planning And Operation In Africa
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Author : Matthew P. McCartney
language : en
Publisher: IWMI
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Decision Support Systems For Large Dam Planning And Operation In Africa written by Matthew P. McCartney and has been published by IWMI this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Dams categories.
Supported by many International agencies.
Dams Displacement And The Delusion Of Development
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Author : Allen F. Isaacman
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2013-04-10
Dams Displacement And The Delusion Of Development written by Allen F. Isaacman and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-10 with History categories.
Cahora Bassa Dam on the Zambezi River, built in the early 1970s during the final years of Portuguese rule, was the last major infrastructure project constructed in Africa during the turbulent era of decolonization. Engineers and hydrologists praised the dam for its technical complexity and the skills required to construct what was then the world’s fifth-largest mega-dam. Portuguese colonial officials cited benefits they expected from the dam—from expansion of irrigated farming and European settlement, to improved transportation throughout the Zambezi River Valley, to reduced flooding in this area of unpredictable rainfall. “The project, however, actually resulted in cascading layers of human displacement, violence, and environmental destruction. Its electricity benefited few Mozambicans, even after the former guerrillas of FRELIMO (Frente de Libertação de Moçambique) came to power; instead, it fed industrialization in apartheid South Africa.” (Richard Roberts) This in-depth study of the region examines the dominant developmentalist narrative that has surrounded the dam, chronicles the continual violence that has accompanied its existence, and gives voice to previously unheard narratives of forced labor, displacement, and historical and contemporary life in the dam’s shadow.
Great Dams In Southern Africa
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Author : Henry Olivier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Great Dams In Southern Africa written by Henry Olivier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Dams categories.
The Management Of The Zambezi River Basin And Kariba Dam
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Author : M. J. Tumbare
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2010
The Management Of The Zambezi River Basin And Kariba Dam written by M. J. Tumbare and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Business & Economics categories.
This book brings together articles and conference papers on the Zambezi River and Kariba Dam written by Dr. Tumbare between 1998-2010. Part I discusses issues of river basin and integrated water resources management and Part II contains papers in infrastructure development in the water and energy sectors.
Living In The Shadow Of The Large Dams
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Author : Dzodzi Tsikata
language : en
Publisher: African Social Studies
Release Date : 2006
Living In The Shadow Of The Large Dams written by Dzodzi Tsikata and has been published by African Social Studies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Business & Economics categories.
Studies of populations affected by large dams are usually about physically displaced and resettled communities. This book on the Volta River Project breaks with the mould and tackles the long term environmental and socio-economic impacts of the Akosombo and Kpong Dams and the livelihood responses of two neglected groups- downstream and lakeside communities. In a detailed study which takes a gendered political economy of livelihoods approach, the book examines livelihoods in downstream and lakeside communities from a historical perspective. The study takes into account the contribution of factors such as the environmental restructuring of the Lower Volta and the exodus of its most economically active population to the Volta Lake, the state's neglect of affected communities, the changing economic and social context of Ghana, and social relations of class, gender and kinship (including inter-generational relations) to livelihood trajectories and outcomes.
Light And Power For A Multiracial Nation
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Author : J. Tischler
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-04-23
Light And Power For A Multiracial Nation written by J. Tischler and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-23 with History categories.
'Modernisation' was one of the most pervasive ideologies of the twentieth century. Focusing on a case study of the Kariba Dam in central-southern Africa and based on an array of primary sources and interviews the book provides a nuanced understanding of development in the turbulent late 1950s, a time when most colonies moved towards independence.