by Nile Sprague | Dec 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
I visited several maize (corn) farmers in the North of Ghana near Tamale. The harvest was under way, the plants dry in the fields, and the farmers pulling the ears of corn off the stalks and piling them on the ground. Women and young men collected the maize into...
by Nile Sprague | Dec 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
This women’s cooperative processes shea nuts into shea butter for use in cocoa and skin products. They use labor intensive traditional techniques, involving grinding the nuts, roasting them, making a paste, mixing it with cold and hot water to separate the...
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...
