Dam for Africa

Acknowledgment
List of Abbreviations

Prologue
Introduction

Part I. The Volta River Project
1. The Volta Project and the Promise of Modernization
2. "Nkrumah's Baby": Realizing Akosombo within the Cold War

Part II. The Volta Aluminium Company
3. Volta Aluminium Company: A U.S. Outpost in West Africa
4. Working on VALCO's American Island

Part III. Settlements of Modernization
5. "No One Should Be Worse Off": Resettlement
6. Building the City of the Future

Part IV. Power Struggles
7. Waiting for Light: Stories of Rural Electrification
8. Electricity Politics, Droughts, Self-Help

Epilogue

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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• História africana

Akosombo Dam; Ghana; hydroelectric dams; waterways in Africa; VALCO; resettlement; ecological change; aluminum industry; international relations