DECOLONIZE CHOCOLATE – How a start-up is revolutionising the chocolate world 🍫🇬🇭🍫🇬🇭🍫 Chocolate has always been produced in the global North. Hendrik wants to change the situation by building a chocolate factory in Ghana: We join fairafric’s founder on his journey and explore with him why chocolate is hardly ever made in the countries where […]
Anyone who is familiar with fairafric also knows about our “luxury problem”. Due to the high demand and our current, comparatively small production facility, individual varieties of our chocolate bars are often sold out. Sometimes our warehouse in Germany is completely empty. At the same time, we all want to not only serve the demand […]
Germany maintains active trade relations with Ghana, especially in very specific areas. International trade is a world of both goods and figures. We have compiled an overview for you. “Ghana is one of Germany’s most important trading partners in sub-Saharan Africa,” reads the German foreign Office’s Ghana page right at the beginning. But what does […]
The tradition goes back to the Akan tribe: to name their children by the day of their birth. However, Ghanaian names have an even deeper meaning. We take you into this culture and show you as well your Ghanaian name! The Ghanaian culture cannot be considered a uniform one. Rather, it consists of hundreds of […]
Finally, we have some good news regarding our coconut-palm tree project: This May we gave our Ghanaian farmers the first load of coconut-palm tree seedlings. Is it a plantain-tree, a shady tree or a chance-tree? Maybe you can still remember what we promised already in the very beginning during our kickstarting campaign: We wanted to […]