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The Volta River Project
1956 :: ISOTYPE NIGERIA :: BOOK
Public-information booklet explaining the proposed Volta River dam, hydroelectric power station and aluminium smelter to the people of the Gold Coast, with an introduction by the Prime Minister and a closing essay, "Why I favour the Volta River Project", by Professor W. A. Lewis. Sections ask why the project is needed and why now, how it will work, what the Gold Coast gains (fisheries on the new lake, irrigated farming near Accra, construction jobs and labour training, power supply), what it will cost, who pays, and how smelter profits and company tax are divided. Designed by the Isotype Institute for the Department of Information Services, Gold Coast; produced by Buffalo Books Ltd and printed by Purnell & Sons, Paulton and London.
