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on west africa's atlantic coast the former british colony of ghana became infamous for its involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and also for its abundant reserves of gold which is why the english called it the gold coast. the country is rich in role materials such as oil which was recently discovered in the region and above all. gone it is the world's 2nd biggest producer of coto despite the plentiful resources they rarely benefits gone names themselves. resourcefulness has become a necessity for some people white gold has replaced yellow and all taming to get rich and many trying to survive. garnered names

warrior king a fitting name that reflects the strength and resilience of its people. i want to buy a whole bunch. they face a new battle every day. at dawn on lake volta the launches start to fish a reservoir in the wild water taxis pulled up to the banks. 3 times a week a transport isolated villages to the big market in the town of tom pocket. this particular county seems to sense the getting on the boat isn't going to be an easy tox. like and i'm going to sell my car at the market still have

a way to get there are risky for the cow but i've got no choice. why let. the town would have been down to the appreciated a ram but a ride in the fresh air is bound to calm it down. to the next bit of the boats may be primitive but they are vital for the region's economy without them famous would be trapped on that island speed but. i'm not. going to let you know. that

moron that i'm not out in the back to give the man my basket so he can bring it to me to lighten. it up. and that will. come out about how everyone gets on to such boats any way they can they have no choice the ferries had too big to dock at the small patches of land although few of the passengers know how to swim i mainly use the life jackets as power songs. but everything's fine the lake is like an old park. where only watching the boats draft josephs the captain gets as much onto it as he can. i drive the block i think i don't know actually how many people and animals there

are my counted for cows and 4 sheeps. off what are the maximum is about 1015 comes and the maximum number of people i would say is 5250. but it's very dangerous. if we're on lucky and a storm it's when we're in the middle of the lake. it's really dangerous because. i. offer a 2 hour journey the water taxi arrives at top a market for the animals getting also a boat is a much more pleasant experience in getting off.

out of. the passengers or badly off the boats when it heads back i want to cross the lake. ataturk the market the scent of spices mingles with the aroma of freshly fried freitas. it's hard to ignore the smell of petrol and fish. and if there's pop array of sense one in particular is missing the center rived from a fruit found at every market stall the cocoa fruit it santa doesn't dom fold until it has been processed. ghana is the world's 2nd biggest producer of coca hundreds of trucks transported across the country before it's exported all over the while.

but most locals like biko have never tasted it. all good boy we've lived all vehicle parked next. to the all get up if you come at like cattle call the farm really easy to. know but you can even see some of the ball. go by when. they're juggling the ball all they do is that every meal will be involved.

in. an eco shuttles between dozens of warehouses along the road he wants for the state which buys for most all the cocoa produced by the region's farmers do not mean the end. of. the war 'd. i mean a kilo as there is by but. 65 percent of that is the biggest. one . cocoa sales represent 10 percent of ghana's gross domestic product but the locals rarely see any of the process. fits in that day to day lives. well i think.

there's a. the roads leading to the warehouse is a rundown. ready to go because they said no dream to load and that god used various planes if you want to get to a dime and there would be because of. the world by decent people going to got the. last big look like to cause this widely. it's official cycle if he's late delivering the load he will lose part of his salary.

in the heart of the forest of the cocoa harvesters have to get a move on. i did. of the season is coming to an end and i need to gather the remaining parts the fruit that contains the cocoa beans before they rot on the trees. when i was shamed to do the work as well as these men can but harvesting is an arduous task.

they extract the private parts with machetes which are nicknamed go to hell. every. day. is the pride of this country. this is the let me. tell you it's the best quality. other countries produce cocoa. but it's just not as good as in ghana where you got gold i just assume from here the cocoa will go to. iraq i mean i want to there it will have to europe but i don't know what its final destination will be like this and i thought they. were right.

around 15 families from the cocoa trees and missed small forest but in the past few years production levels have dropped. the simple crop funding of coca has sucked all the nutrients out of the soil the trees growing old and there's no money to replace them nowadays every penny. accounts. from a situated close to the border with togo jeff sells his chemical beans to whichever country bids highest. and to remember that the border with total is around a kilometer from here it's the. december togo was paying one euro $0.37 a kilo gone i was paying one euro 16 friend but at the end of the month togo that price has dropped to $1.00 euro $22.00 and gone as a private road so it was

a gun. this is the old i'm not. going to load it onto a motorbike i'll take a shot i mean it's all my god why are you putting it on a motorbike for you up on because there's no path there's no road or just tracks. there's no road suitable for cars. well you know. for sure dangerous there are lots of accidents. normally the government should have built bridges but there are no bridges the now so if you're not careful you'll have an accident and you don't think you're going to fall but when you do some of the number up efforts are about the limit about the effects. you're going to get the trip to the town on these old motorbikes can be very risky broken arms or legs are common although jeff's team hasn't suffered any fatalities he hands. and.

sadly maxwell was not so lucky he died in a car accident as he was delivering bags of cocoa beans to the town. his aunt precious is bringing his body back to the village in a coffin shaped like a coke ipod as a gesture of on a. funeral singing gonna fall from morbid a fast death is seen last as an end as the gateway to eternal life it is cause for celebration. believe in the often life it's important for families to express love and respect for the deceased to ease their journey to the other side. sometimes burials a larger fast just like the one today. was.

that the whole village is taking part. time. 6 for the women prepare a traditional dish of corned topped with a spicy sauce. the it may seem shocking to some the body is dressed in finery and put on display before it is placed back in the coffin. was dead.

maxwell's family firmly believes that he has simply moved on to another life in one form or another he will be more powerful than those still living so each of them comes to talk to him to win his favor. safe journey you'll be reunited with your brother. and then you'll be reunited with everyone there you'll be welcomed with open arms. good job will you do in your next life. after all i did for you you left me. with nobody was 1 the 1st to the

ruling. because then everybody that you. were not. there was. a young. people want them to. the guy states you can't stand. this present dinamo for 4 months his family paid the equivalent of 300 euros for the coffee and an enormous sum for people here. to scout some schoolchildren give him

a final send off. get off in a sense. because the fight i felt before and i never. had that i might find out in that found. there by the whole.

i'm going to. go on without mentioning them or have them not really working out. after a 2 hour long ceremony the coffin is taken to the cemetary. i'm . fucked up but. the polls are accompanied to maxwell's final resting place where his coffin is again welcomed with scenes of joy so he can begin his new life in happiness.

i. think. through the combination nothing much chanting incessant beating of drums the burial of ashes his nephew is a friends if. i . say. it's the wrong way turn him this way. 7

i. on the plantation away from the chaos of the burial jeff and his men head off to town to sell some of them last remaining packs of coke. the 10 men transporting $650.00 kilos of cocaine to be. none of them have a driver's license in any case navigating through the bush isn't something taught

in driving school. it's a 50 kilometer long journey and all the drivers are a lot they want to survive this journey. 2 hours across rough terrain take a toll on the old motorbikes. over

and. over and if there's a got to have some broken because the road is so bumpy. haneke and jaska. and such bad shape it broke through several cars they got to step on this island for this if there's that's just the kind of thing we have wired up with yours on the. motorbike is back on the road they will have to put some of the. profits from selling the cocoa towards the repair. the group is hoping to honor around $100.00 euros which would make 10 euros per passion. they've reached the final hurdle but it's not an easy one quality control carried out by the uncompromising joseph who buys cocoa for the government he's the one who sets the prices. messy. i want to take the day. if the guy is good this 2nd bite if you don't

look good there is not that i have to date. today joseph appears to be very satisfied with the quality he pays jeff's team 200 euro 100 more than they were hoping for. with its massive deposits of minerals and oil ghana could be very rich but its economy still relies mainly on farming and fishing. making a living in these sectors is far from easy many call on higher powers to help them

get by. to get out of the what the lord we have come to our place of work this morning make your blood fall upon us and protect us lord may you destroy part of it will spirit i'm a. there earth's over there. i've got a cancer and it's over there where the birds are all right now good. water i'm also thought of here in direct competition with other boats i'm out so we have to cast our nets before they do i did not know about that there are naga i don't got out. to him one of them has already started fishing oh they're talking their nets too hard. they're too desperate.

to send off. the crew had better hurry 200000 boats are all competing off the carnation coast as a consequence fish stocks have steadily 25 of the years. who. who will go with the one who lose who you know who the one who. who are. now the low level role model go riding go get a move on. you don't want to return home empty handed. you want to keep going don't want to have if you don't work you won't get paid about about. it at a manual is the quartermaster otherwise known as the head of the crew his job is to keep his man motivated. oranges because i really.

never really. got the part yeah yeah. i do love it i love. that money but. i. feel. well that's really the right no. no no no no let me go. back out on. up so we have time to recast the net once more. fishing one make these men millionaires have courts around $100.00 kilos at the most mainly just small fish.

the methods of some captives who use dynamite and pesticides to turn quick profits and forced bigger fish to retreat to deeper waters. dozens of women are keeping an eye on the horizon. but they're not waiting for the hospitals to return from the sea. their fishmongers. left home in the morning and gather here to wait for the fishermen to come back it's the only work we can do to feed ourselves it also means i can send my children to school and i knew that he didn't want to use.

oh. they're bound to be disappointed if the 15 votes separate times with an impressive whole. bottle of the fishmongers begins to. there isn't enough fish to go around. other than i want to buy the whole basket. that i want to basket for the 2 eyes that were fishing and i want some smelt. then what surprised me is sending them for . oh. no money for them. we

always have to go when we buy. the fisherman give us a price and we negotiate and if they say $100.00 we suggest 15 out they say $200.00 we said a 100 where that is the that was. the. absolute what is that my basket you're pulling up now you go ahead fill it up to the brim and are you going to i'm going to smoke some of them and the others will be assaulted and drive in the sun. then sell them at the market. that i mean for. smoking and salting the fish prevents it from having to be refrigerated fishmongers can preserve it in this way for a week maybe more. that's why salt is vitally important in africa ghana has enjoyed a good reputation for its salt since the 8 century. drivers

who transport cocoa and those who transport salt share the same treacherous routes . gonna so-called white gold is in demand and sold across the african continent. oh. good luck. if you want to load up 2000 bags of socks. 50 times i keep a close eye and you go yeah because of her see a problem something to us i'm missing it i have to replace it that's how i got the

love i get. what i might. go it's a dangerous trip sometimes robbers jump onto the truck and steal the good if the roads bump and you have to slow down there and climb out of the truck i did. but george has no choice he has to drive slowly on these poorly maintained roads. and. george is taking this delivery eastwards to 2200 kilometers he and his truck had been dancing to the rhythm of the part homes as he puts it. comes to you and we like were dancing at a party because of the growth and what you saw how i was dancing at the wheel of my gently down to brown lead to that's because i got roads are so badly damaged down

to the bronco soon after that i think. most coastal residents make a living from salt production i've got about that that everywhere you look at our salt you know when the women who dig down into the ground they find salted my by the blood that. salt is one of the. and of all minerals found in abundance it's an i'm limited resource that helps people living on the coast to survive. just because there's a bunch of it doesn't mean it's easy to harvest. not that it's the men who delegate and share out the work and it's us women who have to

dig for the salt we. were told on your on the men avoid doing it themselves because it's hard work in the morning but you are not done your no work but there are. also it's us women who have to do it. for you. to watch out. if you can do this all with your bare hands to get covered and so are. all cocoa. then i took off our that's why mine are in such a bad state shutdown but i use this tool to hurt but that gets me out of the wood and nails to break down the salt crystals. but. i must have worked collecting salt for 20 years it's a really tough job. you know one. of them oh yeah well gotta have awful aches and pains i have a bad back i'm

a when i'm i like that but. my feet are crack down hard. on my. all for the day to try to stop toggled they are ruthless. i want that they're fed up and i want nice looking salt to be able to resell it i have to spread it out and examine it so i thought well if it doesn't look good i won't be able to sell it for the best price. and now i can't be mixed up with any scent. so what's going to be this and mixes with the salt. i will know.

so it is funny. i said i'd sell it for $200.00 no that's too much that of how much would you pay for it i'll give you a $100.00 say to you no money no no do you owe no deal oh yeah. come on please. i'm not compromising. is this. my song just nice and white it's one of the times i heard people just on buy anymore i'll take it for one today but not this. 120 isn't enough. on an amount. oh you know yesterday someone bought it for 150 no line i want question here don't agree i'll go buy somewhere else ok all right i'm happy today my children and i will be able to eat we'll have 1st comics fine. she bought everything off me and i have money to count up. here's the money yo. thank you for buying my salt may

god bless you and protect you on your journey back. into. the equivalent of 21 europe's the money will last and her 2 children a week any animal she can catch a supplement to their meals. help or much about this is my house it's where i live all my riches are here. adamle i make everything myself with my own hands these buckets are mine. i have

what i can of my secrets to one side for a funeral as. we look at that. now we shall. now show caught that our. hands are damaged from the hard work i do dos. is starting to look like the hands of a leopard. but your heart always tries to keep a smile on her face so she says is you can't wear down on x. by slicing bananas. in other words anything is possible with a bit of will power and not something that can names appear to have an ample supply no matter how obvious the task.

george and his are certain to have now been dancing in that trunk for hours. through it but i like my job. i was a pest and. my dad taught me to drive that bike on my bike and driving since i was young. when i was 12 i could already drive i've been the gonna mccain a fossil hybrid polish molly in nigeria easy area. all these years of driving have taught george patience lots of it especially when it comes to crossing borders. about this that we have to go and check in. here george and his assistant to arrive in a town on the border with togo. and

it will be defeated by the customs officers will check the goods and a condition that area they want to check that stuff hasn't gone off and make people sick come by that do you believe it was that it. was some level but. george takes his place among the hundreds of other trucks waiting to be inspected some have been stuck here for weeks the customs officers work at their own pace as drivers wait patiently. along it may take everything will get to where it needs to go it's going to. get the cocoa plantation jeff is also preparing to go to tokyo he's located much

closer to the border and so he's making the journey on foot. with the 50 move to let you know. such as. these are the last few bags i'm going across the border i need some c.f.a. frags that's like currency managed in the village i want to go to i needed that is that i'm taking the last few bags to say about them this year the quality of the cocoa isn't good at will be spoiled or the rain that ruined all the cocoa that's a cool so that. these cocoa beans and on good enough to be sewn to kanye and by his mother in tokyo jethro's a trader who doesn't scrutinise goods to foreign aid. he .

said that under most of the villagers an hour's walk away carrying the cocoa on our heads that. this is when we arrive at the border will cross or don't head to the front. for the carriers it's a far from gentle stroll it got around 30 kilos on my hands. so was i once i thought of this another little risk that marks the border that i'm in i have crossed the border but i'm not gonna do a go and now we're in total misery once you cross it you're in total so no i've made it and i just. can't go for oil gold and other mineral resume says could make ghana one of the world's fastest growing economies. instead gone hands described their country as

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