Ghana’s decades-old ambition to build an integrated aluminium industry faces a new hurdle: the clean energy transition

By Theophilus Acheampong, Associate Lecturer, University of Aberdeen
Matthew Tyce, Lecturer in International Political Economy, King's College London

It has been more than 60 years since Ghana’s first post-independence leader Kwame Nkrumah first mooted the idea that Ghana should produce aluminium from the country’s ample supply of bauxite.

Under the Volta River Project, Nkrumah’s vision was to construct a dam on Ghana’s Volta River to provide dedicated electricity to a newly…

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