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Personalities is a category that catalogues Personality Profiles and journeys of outstanding persons at the various stages of the cocoa industry
COCOBOD Boss Joseph Boahen Aidoo To Receive Ivory Coast National Honour
Mr Joseph Boahen Aidoo the Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is billed to receive a national recognition in Ivory Coast on 1st October 2020.
President Alassane Dramane Ouattara will be bestowing the honour on the COCOBOD…
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Prof. Emmanuel Afoakwa Appointed Chairman of Ghana Cocoa Awards Board
International cocoa and chocolate scholar, Professor Emmanuel Ohene Afoakwa, has been appointed chair of the 3-member Advisory and Awarding Board of Ghana Cocoa Awards, an industry awards scheme.
Professor Afoakwa, who is also the…
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3 Some Chocolates – The Story Of A Black Chocolatier Tired Of Being Fired
Getting laid off from a job can be stressful and discouraging, especially when you are a Black man in America dealing with systematic racism.
3 Some chocolates. What is that? Well, tired of getting fired and being paid less although having…
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The Addison Sisters of 57 Chocolate Are Bringing Economic Empowerment To Ghana
Did you know most of the world's chocolate comes from the Ivory Coast and Ghana? The oldest chocolate maker, Switzerland, gets its cocoa beans from Ghana.
Yet, Ghana doesn't readily produce its own chocolate. What's more, is Ghana then…
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Meet Yaa Peprah Amekudzi – The Woman Spearheading Mondelez Cocoa Life in Ghana
Yaw Nkansah took over three acres of the cocoa plantation when his father died five years ago.
He was 25 and a junior high school leaver. Now 30, he has the frame and looks of a man resigned to a hard life.
He hates and loves in equal…
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CEO of Ghana’s Cocoa360 Shadrack Frimpong Appointed Editor of Yale’s Prestigious Health and Policy…
You might not have heard his name but the bottom-to-the-top tale of Shadrack Osei Frimpong is as riveting as it is inspiring.
Frimpong spent his childhood in Tarkwa Breman in Ghana’s Western Region with no electricity nor running water…
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