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
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