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VIDEO: The true story about the blacksmith who brought Ghana’s first cocoa seeds in 1879

Of all the stories many Ghanaians know of the man who first brought cocoa seedlings to Ghana, the narratives that they came from Fernando Po (now Equatorial Guinea) and that Tetteh Quarshie was only able to smuggle the seeds by swallowing them have been the most predominant. Well, while only …

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