by Nile Sprague | Dec 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
I visited several maize (corn) farmers in the North of Ghana near Tamale. The harvest was under way, the plants dry in the fields, and the farmers pulling the ears of corn off the stalks and piling them on the ground. Women and young men collected the maize into...
by Nile Sprague | Dec 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
This women’s cooperative processes shea nuts into shea butter for use in cocoa and skin products. They use labor intensive traditional techniques, involving grinding the nuts, roasting them, making a paste, mixing it with cold and hot water to separate the...
by Nile Sprague | Nov 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
Monday morning I drove three hours north of Accra, Ghana to visit cocoa farms. It was a bumpy, long drive, but the trip was great – lot’s of beautiful photos of both the cocoa and people’s way of life here. Ghana is great – I’m very...
