Ghana’s new export miracle: From Cocoa to Cocaine!

Source: MyJoyOnline · 2026-11-15T16:02:10.000Z · Business

Once upon a time in the Republic of Uncommon Sense, a country famous for producing cocoa, gold and excellent excuses discovered that its agricultural export industry had acquired a rather mysterious new product. The discovery was not made at the Ministry of Trade, the Ghana Export Promotion Authority or any of those important conferences where distinguished gentlemen gather to discuss value addition over bottled water and meat pies. It was made in Spain, where customs officers opened a consignment of Ghanaian coconuts and discovered that the fruits had apparently travelled with 2.6 tonnes of cocaine. For a nation that has spent decades preaching export diversification, this was an extraordinary development. Our farmers had been encouraged to add value to their produce, but nobody had explained that the value should be hidden beneath the produce in wooden crates. Somewhere along the international supply chain, certain enterprising criminals had evidently taken the government's economic transformation agenda rather too literally.

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