Word: cocoa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surface, Nigeria seemed tranquil enough. A dozen ocean-going freighters thrashed seaward from Lagos' Apapa Quay, laden with cocoa, groundnuts, rubber and timber. In the Eastern Region's capital of Enugu, helmeted coal miners queued up as usual at the "Drink Tea and Eat Fried Meat and Radio Servicing" shop. At the Iddo Motor Park, beside the Bight of Benin, the lorries and "mammy wagons" of Ibo refugees were drawn into a frontier-style circle, while families clustered around huge pots of palm-oil chop-a bubbling mass of rice, meat, fish and coconut squeezings. The fatalistic mottoes...
...Africa's most populous nation marked its sixth anniversary last week, it teetered on the brink of civil war. The cause of its problems is the age-old struggle between three dominant tribal groups: the ambitious Ibos of the oil-rich Eastern Region; the ebullient Yorubas of the cocoa-growing West; the feudal Hausas and Fulani of the semiarid "Holy North." Their differences are basic and, unfortunately, all too typical of the tribal divisions that plague other African nations. The Northerners are rigid Moslems, suspicious of outsiders, wary of progress, ruled by reactionary emirs whose palaces are made...
...Raphaël Saller, who executed for the Ivory Coast an economic program inspired by France's own le Plan. Blessed with nine feet of annual rainfall and a sunny six-month growing season, the Ivory Coast ranks third among the world's coffee producers, fourth in cocoa. But aware of the dangers of a one-or two-crop economy, Houphouet-Boigny and Saller sponsored land conversion programs for corn, soybeans, peanuts and pineapple...
Good Job. Along with heading up a family-owned commodities brokerage trading in cocoa, coffee and rubber, Israel joined Bache in 1945. Last year when Bache, following the example of 138 other New York Stock Exchange members, switched from a partnership to a corporation, Israel was picked by Harold Bache to become president. Bache himself became chief executive, but Wall Street predicted that Israel would eventually move into that...
...labels American efforts "neo-colonial." His are the familiar complaints against the United States' moral crusade against communism: charges of economic exploitation and manipulation, cries of CIA conspiracies and engineered coups. Azikiwe maintains that the unrest in Ghana leading to Nkrumah's downfall was caused by an international capitalist 'cocoa conspiracy" which depressed the price of cocoa, Ghana's staple crop. Apparently the increased production of cocoa in Nigeria and the Ivory Coast had little to do with the falling price. Azikiwe is justified in condemning the mixture of "progressive and reactionary tactics" which the U.S. has employed in Africa...