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Title: | The Construction of Takoradi Harbour in the Gold Coast, 1919 to 1930: A Case Study in Colonial Development and Administration |
Author: | Meredith, David |
Year: | 1976 |
Periodical: | Transafrican Journal of History |
Volume: | 5 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 134-149 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Ghana Great Britain |
Subjects: | ports colonialism development projects History and Exploration Development and Technology |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/24520291 |
Abstract: | The deep-water harbour constructed at Takoradi in the Gold Coast between 1919 and 1930 was the most expensive single project undertaken by a British administration in tropical Africa in the 1920s. As a large-scale public work, conceived and carried out by the local government financed by a loan on the London money market, providing orders for British firms for materials, and adding to British empire trade through its stimulus to the Gold Coast export economy, it personified the then current British concept of economic development. The present article concentrates on the construction period, offers an interpretation of the reasons for building the harbour when and where it was, in the context of Britain's broader colonial economic policies, and outlines the major problems which such a complex structure presented to the colonial authorities and their reactions to these. Notes, tables. |