How socialist architects, planners, and contractors worked collectively to urbanize and
develop the Global South during the Soviet era In the course of the Cold War, architects …

As early as the 1910s, African drivers in colonial Ghana understood the possibilities that
using imported motor transport could further the social and economic agendas of a diverse …

The construction of the Bui Dam was expected to boost socio-economic development in
Ghana. This article examines the impacts of the project on the livelihoods of the local …

Large dams were central to policy making in Ghana and the rest of Africa in the early
postcolonial period as part of the quest for development, framed in terms of the …

Abstract The Akosombo Dam across the Volta River in Ghana remains at the center of
debates and imaginations about nationhood, modernity, and development. Originally …

Accra, 1958. Africa's liberation leaders have gathered for a conference, full of strength,
purpose and vision. Newly independent Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah and Congo's Patrice …

Governmental and non-governmental actors promoting the universalisation of energy
access and a just energy distribution for all envision spatial energy justice and recognition …

Ghana, the former British colony of the Gold Coast, is historically known for being the first
country to the south of the Sahara to attain political independence from colonial rule. It is …

En janvier 2019 s' est tenue à Dakar la troisième édition de la Conférence internationale sur
l'émergence de l'Afrique1. Durant trois jours,«plus de 1 300 décideurs et experts» provenant …

ABSTRACT In late-2013, Bui Dam was commissioned on Ghana's Black Volta River. The
hydroelectric project inundated 444 km2, flooding communities, forests, crops, and a …