by Nile Sprague | Nov 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
I was driven 700KM, which took about 8 hours, to visit this cashew processing plant in Touba in North Eastern Côte d’Ivoire, very near the border with Guinea. The factory was great – clean, well run, good equipment. I love cashews, and it was interesting to...
by Nile Sprague | Nov 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
We drove down a funky dirt road, over a rickety wooden bridge (just a few planks stacked together, no nails or railing), and eventually came to a small cluster of houses surrounded by cocoa trees. In Divo, Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory...
by Nile Sprague | Nov 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
I spent my first day in Sierra Leone visiting the Kroo Bay slum in Freetown. The environment was rough, the photos striking, and the people friendly and warm, both suffering and...
by Nile Sprague | Nov 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
Monday morning I drove three hours north of Accra, Ghana to visit cocoa farms. It was a bumpy, long drive, but the trip was great – lot’s of beautiful photos of both the cocoa and people’s way of life here. Ghana is great – I’m very...