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Modern Ghana
The Golden Pod's Genesis: Tetteh Quarshie and the Foundations of Ghana's Cocoa Economy
- Tetteh Quarshie
- Cocoa Industry
- Ghanaian Agriculture
- Cash Crop
- Fernando Po
- Mampong Akuapem
- Gold Coast
- Economic History
- Akuapem People
- Colonial Economy
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Chapter 1
The Blacksmith's Vision: From Akuapem to Fernando Po
Explores Tetteh Quarshie's early life in Mampong Akuapem, his trade as a blacksmith, and his pivotal journey to Fernando Po (now Bioko) in the late 19th century, detailing his observations of thriving cocoa cultivation on the island.
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- Nowell Commission Report. (1938). Report of the Commission on the Marketing of West African Cocoa. Cmd. 5845. London: HMSO.
- Amoah, Joseph E.K. (1995). Development of Consumption, Commercial Production, and Marketing. Jemre Enterprises.
- Fold, Niels & Neilson, Jeff. (2016). Sustaining Yields in Ghanaian Cocoa. DIIS Working Paper.
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