ABSTRACT
It is a pleasure and a privilege to write this foreword to a book in honor of one of my closest friends. David Brokensha and I met in the 1960s because of our mutual interest in the involuntary resettlement of over 80,000 people that was then underway in connection with construction of Ghana’s Volta Dam at Akosombo. His 1962 “Volta Resettlement, Ethnographic Notes of Southern Areas” was one of the first publications dealing with people who have subsequently been called “development refugees”. The next year in an article in Human Organization on “Volta Resettlement and Anthropological Research” he called for a sociology of resettlement hence anticipating a field of enquiry that has since become a major thrust in anthropology.
