Author: Mikell, Gwendolyn.
Title: Cocoa and Chaos in Ghana.
Description: Howard University Press 1992. 284pp illustrated softcover. No inscription. Cadbury library label ffep. some marks to front wrap else a VG copy. ISBN: 9780882581538 Contends that cocoa has been both a source of wealth and chaos in Ghana and, as the cash nexus in capitalist development, it became the pivot of economic and political activity. The struggle to control the resources from cocoa and the state's inordinate dependence upon its revenues for national development led to tensions at every level of society. Domestic gender tensions, lineage fragmentation, peasant/elite and ethnic/regional antagonisms, and a state political economy that became increasingly problematic for national elites to administer. Overall underdevelopment and impoverishment were the outcomes of Ghana's dependence on cocoa.

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