ABSTRACT
The Volta River Project may well be the greatest single project that has so far been undertaken in tropical Africa, and it is certainly the biggest single step ever taken in the economic and industrial development of Ghana. It is a scheme with many sides to it, and in the view of Professor Arthur Lewis—a person with tremendous experience of the problems of developing countries—it will bring to Ghana a larger income per head of population than any other industry or enterprise in which Ghanaian labour and money could be employed. It may also put Ghana in the forefront of the industrialised parts of tropical Africa, and thereby minimise the country's present state of being dependent upon the production of a single crop, cocoa.
