This is the news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes adding value to africas resources most of goddess cocoa is exported rule we meet the women making dollars from the beans. But if you do time when you think donna who are you the girl of the chocolate never comes to mind fifty seven chocolate is changing back to britain saying that youre gonna became a free nation the makers want to revive the can do spirit of that independence year. And two years off to kenya and now the Worlds Toughest bans on single use plastic bags the alternative that was introduced is now also being outlawed our correspondent in nairobi has that story. Im christine window while come to news africa im glad your change in gaza is
a giant when it comes To Cocoa Production the West African Country exports off the being a second only to neighboring ivory coast in fact gonna its faults cocoa beans with about two billion u. S. John is a gift but it is a net importer of chocolate spending up to eight Million Do
a giant when it comes to cocoa production the west african country exports off the being a second only to neighboring ivory coast in fact gonna its faults cocoa beans with about two billion u.s. john is a gift but it is a net importer of chocolate spending up to eight million dollars a year on the sweet stuff now that s according to what rather that starting to change as going to see is a new generation of autism chocolate produces springing up there taking every souls that ghana has in abundance and adding value to the raw material. kwesi a would is an expert when it comes to cocoa farming but he s not that fond of chocolate he s rather have a plate of fries to eat these really wild preferred food rewards one who did it will work. through one yes sir you are strong
takes a lot of it and go instead definitely run a chocolate business karen and death to represent using our resources at home to actually produce the finished good care. so fifty seven chocolate is really putting the gloss on gun us cool cool now that s just a commons gun as cocoa from us to become chocoholics. and i m happy to welcome to date ebony s. africa kimberly addison you saw in the report she is the co-founder of fifty seven chocolates and she s coming to us from accra in ghana hi kimberly s so as we saw in our report fair we have a cocoa farmer who s not so keen on chocolates variant ghana and so i wanted what market is more important to you would it be the export market or the domestic market well it is actually both i would say both are equally important because the truth is we have to start locally in order. globally so right
switzerland at the time and we all know that switzerland is very much known for its chocolate and ghana known for its cocoa and you happen to be visiting when i stood still and largest factory. and it was for the first time that most of donna s cocoa is actually brought to switzerland and processed there and we actually found out for the latter part of last year that these that increase that ironically of ghana scoble actually gets sent to switzerland and so we couldn t comprehend why ghana had the resources it was not making a finished product out of it and so that s what inspired us we wanted to add value to a local resource right here at home because the truth is there is value in cocoa but there s more value in adding. in making it into chocolate and making it into a finished goods so that s what we re trying to do here the name of your company fifty seven chocolate references that you have a gun a became an independent nation what were you trying to evoke. so i was trying to
now as we do so and we re actually tackling both market so we re tackling our iraqi piece here in terms of ritual create more awareness and create a greater desire for consumption of chocolate here in ghana and then equally target is a global. consumer of consumable and so we re definitely also tackling the global market as well because it s a huge market out there and in the in europe and in the. in asia we have clients all over the world so it s definitely local and global. local and global but how did you come to the idea of making artists know chocolates and gotta know what was the inspiration. well the inspiration actually came to us when he fourteen my sister and i and one thing is we were actually living in geneva