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09/05/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Crossing Continents, Return to Ghana's Oil City

Rob Walker finds out how oil has changed Ghana's sleepy port city of Takoradi.

Rob Walker returns to Takoradi to find out how Ghana's oil boom has affected this once sleepy port city.

Two and a half years ago, oil started flowing from Ghana's first commercial offshore oilfield. Shortly after the taps were turned on, Rob Walker visited the hub for the new industry: the once sleepy port of Takoradi. He found a mixture of ambition and uncertainty in a rapidly expanding boomtown. Rob now returns to Takoradi to meet people he met last time and find out whether their dreams have been realised.
Producer: Katharine Hodgson.

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