Lakes Of Africa Research Articles

Dams in Africa: An Inter-Disciplinary Study of Man-Made Lakes in Africa

Dams in Africa: An Inter-Disciplinary Study of Man-Made Lakes in Africa

Dams in Africa: an inter-disciplinary study of man-made lakes in Africa edited by M. W. Warren and N. Rubin London, Frank Cass, 1968. Pp. xii+188. 55s. - The Challenge of Development: report of an East African conferenceNairobi, East African Publishing House, 1968. Pp. 147. 15s. - Economic Development in the Tropics by B. W. Hodder London, Methuen, 1968. Pp. 258.

Dams in Africa: an inter-disciplinary study of man-made lakes in Africa edited by M. W. Warren and N. Rubin London, Frank Cass, 1968. Pp. xii+188. 55s. - The Challenge of Development: report of an East African conferenceNairobi, East African Publishing House, 1968. Pp. 147. 15s. - Economic Development in the Tropics by B. W. Hodder London, Methuen, 1968. Pp. 258. 35s. Paperback 18s. - Volume 7 Issue 2

Neville Rubin and William M. Warren (ed.): Dams in Africa: an inter–disciplinary study of man–made lakes in Africa. xii, 188 pp. London: Frank Cass and Co. Ltd., 1968. 55s.

Neville Rubin and William M. Warren (ed.): Dams in Africa: an inter–disciplinary study of man–made lakes in Africa. xii, 188 pp. London: Frank Cass and Co. Ltd., 1968. 55_s.

Artificial Lakes in Africa

A REMARKABLE proposal for the formation of several great lakes in the interior of Africa in order to create cultivable land and stores of hydro-electric power is outlined in a report issued by Science Service, of Washington, D.C. The project emanates from H. Soergel, of Munich. A great dam two and a half miles long about 500 miles from the mouth of the Congo would turn the basin into an inland sea with an area of about 350,000 sq. miles. An outlet by the lower Congo would provide abundant water power or, alternatively, an outlet could be arranged to the north to create a second inland sea centring around Lake Chad, which would drain through existing wadis to the west, north-east and east by a “second Nile” to the Gulf of Gabes in the Mediterranean. This new river would provide irrigation water for vast areas in the French and Italian Sahara. A further suggestion is for a dam on the Zambezi River above Victoria Falls in order to create an inland sea over much of the Kalahari desert. Herr Soergel does not discuss the effect of evaporation on the projected Chad and Victoria. Seas, both of which would lie in almost rainless regions.

The Marine Fauna in Lake Tanganyika, and the Advisability of Further Exploration in the Great African Lakes

THERE is a story which redounds to the sagacity of a certain Dutch farmer, who, on the sudden appearance of herrings in the ditches on his property, sold it, on account of the indisputable evidence which such fish afforded, of the leaky condition of the dykes. The Dutchman's inference will serve to indicate how much surprise the discovery of jelly-fish in Lake Tanganyika, by Dr. Boehm, created in the minds of those who were interested in the past history of the great lakes in Africa, for, in the presence there even of a single organism so typically, marine, and so unlike any real fresh-water form as a medusa, there was as good, indeed far better, evidence for the former access of the sea to those regions, than that which was afforded by the herrings in the Dutchman's ditch.