Before China’s involvement, the World Bank and European Investment Bank had rejected the dam proposal due to environmental sustainability fears. This followed investigations by the World Commission on Dams and fears about Ghana’s inadequate handling of socio-economic issues resulting from the Akosombo and Kpong dams.
AuthorKwame Adovor Tsikudo
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Kwame Adovor Tsikudo is a human-environment and development geographer with the Department of Geography at Augustana College. He was previously with the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science and an affiliate faculty at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His works on political economy, the environment, and south-south cooperation have been published as book chapters, policy briefs, and articles in journals, including Science of the Total Environment. He also has forthcoming articles in the Journal of Contemporary African Studies, African Geographical Review, and Geoforum.