Dammed or undammed: the Volta region of Ghana
October 27th 2018 Look at a map of Ghana and you’ll soon spot a spiky body of water towards the east that seems to reach its fingers back west and north, as if probing the country for Ashanti gold. This is Lake Volta, the largest manmade body of water (by surface area anyway) in the world. And it was proving remarkably hard to find.
After a couple of days in the lively and colourful Accra, I headed east to the h
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