@_themerc2: 🍫 Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire grow over 60% of the world’s cocoa. So why are their farmers struggling to sell it? Cocoa prices collapsed by over 70% in just 14 months, while harvests were left rotting in the fields and 200,000 tonnes went unsold in Côte d’Ivoire. 🇬🇭🇨🇮 At the same time, corporations say they are using less cocoa and replacing African cocoa with cheaper palm-based fats. 🍫📉 Farmers absorb the losses while processing, branding and retail happen elsewhere. Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire have 60% of the world’s cocoa, yet less than 6% of the $130 billion chocolate industry. 🌍 The solution is clear: process African commodities locally, build African brands, serve African markets first, and sell to the world on African terms. ✊🏾 💭 But do you think African countries can realistically shift from exporting raw commodities to controlling the entire value chain? #Cocoa #Ghana #IvoryCoast #AfricanEconomy #CommodityTrap

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indocraig
indocraig 🇳🇿 :
That's why in New Zealand we buy Whittakers chocolate. Only Ghana cacao.
2026-09-14 09:27:31
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deepcage1
victormussanhane :
Make the chocolates and we will buy it
2026-09-14 06:54:34
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krekormet2gs
Krekormet2Gs :
This is the moment to push thru and to process and produce. The best products come from the natural resources not from the laboratories. Produce and control the future !!
2026-11-01 16:23:00
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bashenga_wakanda
Bashenga :
I expect Ghana and Ivory Coast to have their own Chocolate and Cocoa processing plants by now .
2026-09-14 05:22:50
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ruthamae2008
Ruth Gullah Geehee :
They will be back.
2026-11-01 21:50:12
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gerrio19
Geraldine Oneal :
EXACTLY AFRICA AFRICANS OWN YOUR OWN WITH EVERYTHING RECLAIM YOUR RESOURCES 🪻🪻🪻
2026-11-01 18:24:48
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americaforcitizens
The American Progress Report :
it's not working. no one wants it. we can let the fake candy rot on the shelf just like they let the cocoa rot. so sick of the fuckery. WE WILL BUY YOUR CHOCOLATE FROM YOU!
2026-11-01 11:09:09
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ttotheascha
ttotheascha :
We want chocolate. So badly. Not nestle. Not Belgian. We want real real cocoa.
2026-09-17 05:57:19
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luyanda37
Luyanda🇿🇦 :
They never want us to prosper… the west is truly evil…. Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire you will overcome ✊🏾
2026-09-13 23:46:24
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swarner14
Misty :
Boycott Cadbury, Lindt, Nestle & the like. Africa must sell their own chocolate to their own countries.
2026-09-15 18:56:53
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njeriekiragu
NjerieKiragu :
Also note that the big corporations that make the end product like Mondelez international, Nestlé, Lindt, Cargill, Mars and Hershey's are now using lab developed cocoa in their chocolates.
2026-09-14 10:33:27
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ansem_edet
Ansem :
Then make the chocolate yourselves 🤷🏽
2026-09-13 23:04:39
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lois.singh
lois singh :
Make your own bars and do your P R because many Americans won’t eat nothing but organic and we don’t want palm oil cause we know that hurts Africa YES DO IT WE. AN AFFORDABLE IT 🥰GOOD LUCK TO THE PEOPLE
2026-11-01 04:56:07
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beverley_za
Bev🇿🇦🇿🇦 :
I would buy Chocolate made on our continent 🌍 🇿🇦
2026-09-14 11:45:04
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nanacyruz
KingCyrus🇬🇭 :
Now they are using chemicals to make chocolate products taste like it was made by cocoa. We will process our own products and buy it ourselves.
2026-09-13 18:54:30
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hali.26.6
Hali :
Sell to Asia
2026-09-14 05:12:07
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lisapeace108
lisapeace108 :
Sell to each other 🔥
2026-10-31 20:12:17
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osogo60
Osogo :
Ghana and ivory Coast should process cocoa and sell to Africa we will buy
2026-09-14 01:09:09
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nareshashok0
Naresh 🇿🇦 :
make our own chocolate, they are inadvertently opening the market for us!
2026-09-14 04:32:33
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hello_there_765
hello_there_765 :
I was so happy when African cocoa growers stood up to the western markets. Sad that they still control Africa. I hardly eat chocolate now because it's so gross. Surely we have the skills in Africa to produce the chocolate
2026-09-14 16:18:08
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nonienutritionista
Nonie :
I write a nutrition and food policy column in Canada. I'd like your permission to link to this video (is it also on youtube?) and use a summary of this video in my intro to discussing the impacts of corporate/colonial extraction policies on food, people, land, and natural resources. I'd like your permission. I am happy to forward a draft before publication. Can we chat?
2026-09-14 11:55:54
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sooyun.seong
⋆⁺₊ free palestine₊⁺⋆ 🍉💜 :
let them make there own chocolate we will buy it
2026-09-14 18:22:26
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counselmwase
King Grey :
why doesn't Ghana manufacture the chocolate?
2026-09-16 20:51:21
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milapocalypse
Milapocalypse :
We are already avoiding the major brands who are using the palm oil fats and lab cocoa. So fill the gap guys. We will happily switch so u have 100% of the industry 🤤🤤🤤
2026-09-17 06:54:08
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gingerrocketeer
Saratonin :
Can you share African brands that are available in South Africa. I would much rather support the part of the chocolate industry that enriches and grows Africa
2026-09-15 10:20:25
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