Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

Film Screening & Discussion: Ghana's Electric Dreams
2018-05-22 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Multicultural Center (MCC) Theater, Multicultural Center, Isla Vista, CA, 93117, United States
Ghana’s Electric Dreams presents a history of the roots and wide-ranging impact of the famed hydroelectric Akosombo Dam, Ghana’s most ambitious development project. R. Lane Clark (Independent Film Maker) and Stephan Miescher (History, UCSB) will respond to comments from Boatema Boateng (Communication, UC San Diego). Mona Damluji (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) will moderate.
Ghana’s Electric Dreams was directed and edited by R. Lane Clark; produced by R. Lane Clark, Stephan F. Miescher, and France Winddance Twine.
Sponsored by the Blum Center for Global Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development. Co-sponsored by the departments of History, Film and Media Studies, and the IHC African Studies Research Focus Group.
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