Improving African Futures Using Lessons from the Past

Motor-powered fishing boat moored on Bui Lake, 2016


Description:
An outboard motor-powered fishing boat used by commercial fisherman on the newly formed Bui Lake. The Ewe families who fished the waters of the Black Volta River in this area before Bui Dam was built fished from small canoes. Those small boats are unsafe on the lake formed by Bui Dam because of the lake's unpredictable winds and waves. Fishing on the lake therefore requires access to capital that many local fishermen lack. Trees inundated by the rising lake waters are visible in the background. Two photos. Bui Lake, near Bongase, June, 2016.
Rights:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:
University of Victoria Libraries
Location(s) Facet:
Banda
Subjects:
Motor boats; Bui Lake
Subjects Facet:
Ewe (African people); Bui Dam (Ghana); Fishing
Creator:
Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:
Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:
2016
Date searchable:
2016-06-18
Genre:
Digital image
Location(s):
Banda; Bongase; 8.251697, -2.287305
Geographic Coordinates:
8.251697, -2.287305