Age of Cocoa: Inequality in West Africa’s Chocolate Factory

Age of Cocoa explores the intersection of cocoa, a crop Europeans brought to West Africa in the late 1800s, with a plethora of issues around corruption, inequality, climate change, conflict, development, and political powerplay—especially in relation to the global supply pull coming from the spike in cocoa prices.

With both local and cross-border stories reported in Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, and the Ivory Coast, Age of Cocoa provides some of the most expansive and in-depth perspectives of cocoa and the dendritic state of the Africa-to-Global North trade system.