Ghana/Gold Coast, Portuguese Africa

Cocoa in Ghana

introduced from America

creates generational wealth

world’s biggest producer by 1911

Amilcar Cabral in Portuguese Guinea

agronomist that takes on Marxist ideas

resistance operations in the countryside

Portuguese Withdraw

leave Guinea in 1974

Angola and Mozambique get independence but enter period of party struggles

1946 Gold Coast

Britain appoints legislative council, which includes JB Danquah

JB Danquah

self-government in the “shortest time possible”

Kwame Nkrumah

goes to school in US and comes back with ideas of Democracy and Marcus Garvey

founds Convention People’s Party for self-government now

Swollen Shoot Disease

cocoa virus that westerners started advising on

Marketing Board said farmers had to sell to them so they could market it and retain some profit

paternalism

destroyed older trees

1948 Boycott

servicemen join and riot in the capital

arrests

Ghana

new name after independence in the 50s

Nkrumah becomes prime minister