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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
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Geographic Coordinates:: 8.251697, -2.287305

Description:: A no-trespassing sign posted by the Bui Power Authority along the paved Ahenkro-Bongase road several kilometers north of Ahenkro identifies "land under acquisition" by the Bui Power Authority (BPA). Electrical poles and wires run along the roadside. The large land parcel under acquisition by BPA has long been home to farms worked by families in Ahenkro and Bongase. These farms produce food for household consumption and cash crops, including cashew. View looking northward, Ahenkro-Bongase road, June, 2016.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution--NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Date:: 2016-06-20
Location(s) Facet:: Ahenkro; Bongase
Subjects Facet:: Agriculture; Cash crops; Bui Dam (Ghana); Roads; Electrification
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Language:: English
Date searchable:: 2016
Date searchable:: 2016-06-20
Genre:: Digital image
Genre Facet:: Digital image
Format:: Image
Language Facet:: English
Location(s):: Ahenkro; Bongase
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Geographic Coordinates:: 8.198, -2.33472222

Description:: Standing on the south bank of the Black Volta River near Bui village, looking east-northeast to the gap in the Banda hills where the Bui Dam was constructed after 2008. The area between Bui village and the river was the site of a 19th-century village, Bui Kataa (old Bui). This area was flooded by the rising waters of Bui Lake as it formed behind Bui Dam after 2012. Bui Village, 25 July, 1982.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Date:: 1982-07-25
Location(s) Facet:: Bui
Subjects:: Bui Lake; Bui Kataa; Savanna woodland; Vegetation
Subjects Facet:: Bui Dam (Ghana); Landscapes; Riparian forests; Black Volta River; Mountains
Identifier:: 16
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:: 1982
Date searchable:: 1982-07-25
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Format:: Image
Location(s):: Bui;8.277322, -2.260175
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Geographic Coordinates:: 8.277322, -2.260175

Description:: The Bui Hydroelectric Dam was built on the Black Volta River by Sinohydro, a state-owned Chinese hydropower engineering and construction company. Construction was begun in 2008 and the first turbines became operational in 2013. Here the dam is viewed looking to the northwest from the newly constructed bridge downstream from the dam. Bui Dam site, 20 June, 2019.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Relation:: https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-16967; https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-17048
Date:: 2019-06-20
Location(s) Facet:: Dam Site
Subjects:: Sinohydro; Savanna woodland; Vegetation
Subjects Facet:: Bui Dam (Ghana); Black Volta River; Mountains
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:: 2019
Date searchable:: 2019-06-20
Genre Facet:: Digital image
Format:: Image
Location(s):: Dam Site;8.179543, -2.371213
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Geographic Coordinates:: 8.179543, -2.371213

Description:: Devin Tepleski, University of Victoria undergraduate student in visual anthropology, plays back film footage on a video camera to children from Bui Village. The children carry headpans as they make their way to the river to fetch water. Acting on a request by Bui people, Tepleski visited Bui as part of the Banda Research Project to video-document the village and its people prior to their mandatory relocation due to the Bui Hydroelectric Dam project. His short film "Mango Driftwood" was posted on YouTube on 20 November, 2010 at the link below. Bui Village, May, 2009.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Relation:: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubmaq_oxwfQ
Location(s) Facet:: Bui
Subjects:: Headpans; Mango Driftwood; Team photo; Bui; Fetching water; Children's work
Subjects Facet:: Bui Dam (Ghana); Visual Anthropology
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl; Devin Tepleski
Date searchable:: 2009
Date searchable:: 2009-05
Genre:: Digital image
Genre Facet:: Digital image
Format:: Image
Language Facet:: English
Location(s):: Bui;8.277322, -2.260175
People Facet:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Geographic Coordinates:: 8.277322, -2.260175

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