The K Experience

A worrying sign if you are desperately seeking medication at night, and this is the only place you can go! Well, at least they're honest...

This is a picture of the beautiful house that I lived in most of the time I was in Ghana. It was at the end of a little village called Ashiye, in between Adenta and Oyibi...

Ghana is the second largest producer of cocoa, exporting well over 650,000 tonnes per year. It's products are consumed by hundreds of millions of people everyday in nearly every country in the world in its various forms. But how many people know what it looked like before it was made into their Mars bar, or their Starbucks hot cocoa? How many people care about what it took to make it, and indeed how much it cost to make? Is fair trade really fair? I want to make this a two part entry, the first explaining the ins and outs of the cocoa pod, and the second explaining the ins and outs of the cocoa industry...

Right here on this table is 6 MILLION Cedi's. Not actually worth as much as it sounds. Actually not worth anything anymore...

The number of times people have asked me "Are there like...loads of mud huts in Ghana" made me want to write this entry, along with the fact that the current Africa Cup of Nations is being hosted in Ghana. I also thought it would be a good story as February is Black History month here in the USA.