Sentence examples for black volta from inspiring English sources
Volta River, chief river system of Ghana, formed from the confluence of the Black Volta and White Volta headstreams.
It rises as the Baoulé in low hills in southwestern Burkina Faso near Bobo Dioulasso, and at the end of its course it empties into Lake Volta (in Ghana), a large artificial reservoir created by the Volta River Project and stretching to just above the former confluence of the Black Volta and White Volta rivers.
The entomological survey was designed to cover the suitable tsetse habitats along the three main rivers in the study area (i.e. Black Volta, Kulpawn and Sissili).
The Black Volta may stop flowing in the height of the dry season, but between Bamboi and the Côte d'Ivoire border the river's regime has permitted construction of a dam.
The lake is formed by the Akosombo Dam, which, begun in 1961 and completed in 1965, dammed the Volta River just south of Ajena and created a lake extending upstream from the Akosombo Dam to Yapei, beyond the former confluence of the Black Volta and White Volta rivers.
From its source in Burkina Faso the Black Volta flows roughly north and east for about 200 miles (320 km) and then turns to flow south for 340 miles (550 km), forming the border between Ghana and Burkina Faso and then between Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.
Black Volta River, French Volta Noire, also called (in Burkina Faso) Mouhoun, river in Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta, Ghanaandand Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), headstream of the Volta River in western Africa.
Whereas the Akan people occupy nearly the whole South and West of the Black Volta River and are reported to have migrated from the North occupying the forest and coastal areas as early as in the 13th century, there are no empirical data to trace such and the current representation of 3 West Africa on the EMPOP database is low with very little forensic mtDNA reports from that region of Africa.
At Volta, Alejandro Diaz's black-marker epigrams on cardboard could be had for $99.99.
Produced in New York by Brandon Curtis of the band Secret Machines, the songs on the EP are far closer to TV on the Radio and the Mars Volta than they are to Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
