Happy Valentine's Day! or, if you're in Ghana today, Happy Chocolate Day!. The Ministry of Tourism a few weeks ago decided to designate Valentine's day as Chocolate Day, as a way of ensuring that we, Ghanaians, patronize our chocolate.
According to the latest statistics from the UK-based International Cocoa Organisation, Ghana is the n#2 top producer of cocoa in the world. Even despite the coup of 2002 that hit the West Africa country of Cote d'Ivoire, the country remains the top producer, producing between 2005-6 1,387 thousand tonnes of cocoa, against Ghana's 740 thousand.
This article in USA Today on how Young Ghanaians [have been] smitten with holiday pretty much sums the whole picture up.
5 comments:
Ghanaian chocolate is THE BEST!!
Happy Chocolate day!
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Blogger doesn't seem to be playing nice but I want to vouch for the chocolate. I was in Ghana in May 2003 and brought back several bars of milk and orange chocolate to share with friends. Instead, I kept it all to myself! Wish I had some more...
Ghana is the #2 world producer of chocolate?!? OK, it's official...I GOTTA GET TO GHANA!!!!
Some of the best music on the planet, and chocolate, too? Ghana has much to be pleased about!
-Kim
PS-I noticed that your link for Seattle no longer works. Corrected links for the two Seattle bloggers at Daily Photo:
Seattle Daily Photo http://seattle-daily-photo.blogspot.com
Not Strictly Seattle
http://seattledailyphoto.wordpress.com
Interesting post.
PS: the music in your blog is very nice.
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