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Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The Advent – The Complex Introduction of Cocoa into the Gold Coast
1.1. The Columbian Exchange of Cocoa
1.2. The Atlantic Islands as Springboards of Cocoa to West Africa
1.3. The Different Actors in the Introduction of Cocoa into the Gold Coast
1.3.1. The Early Attempts: European traders and missionaries
1.3.2. Tetteh Quarshie
1.3.3. Governor Sir William Griffith and the Aburi Botanical Gardens
2. The Boom – The “Smallholder Crop” Becomes the “Golden Pod” for Ghana
2.1. The Take-Off of Cocoa in the Gold Coast: 1891-1911
2.2. The Boom and the Relative Decline from the Mid-1960s
2.3. The Economic Structures of the Ghanaian Cocoa Industry
3. The Memory – The Glorification of Tetteh Quarshie
3.1. The Importance of Cocoa for Ghana’s Economy and Culture
3.2. Diverging Narratives about the Pioneer(s) of Cocoa Introduction into the Gold Coast
3.3. Tetteh Quarshie’s Ascension to a Ghanaian lieu de mémoire
3.4. The Current Project of the Tetteh Quarshie Cocoa Museum
Conclusion
Bibliography
Sources
Literature
Newspaper articles
Appendix
- Quote paper
- Tim R. Kerkmann (Author), 2019, Tetteh Quarshie. The Ascension of a Pioneering Cocoa Farmer to a Ghanaian "lieu de mémoire", Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/504072
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