Akosombo Dam - Additional Displaced People
It is estimated that 80,000 people from about 740 villages were displaced by Akosombo Dam. (Pictured: a diagram from a pamphlet titled "The Volta River Project: What It Means to You")
About this community
- Dam
- Akosombo Dam
- River
- Volta River
- Established
- 1961
- Inundated
- 1965
- Population
- 76,000
Sources
- https://www.britannica.com/topic/Akosombo-Dam
- https://scispace.com/pdf/the-volta-resettlement-experience-4yz7e8mth8.pdf
- Iain Jackson et. al, "The Volta River Project: planning, housing and resettlement in Ghana, 1950–1965" (2019)