The true story about the blacksmith who brought Ghana’s first cocoa seeds in 1879

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Ghano 1 year ago

Here we go again

Here we go again
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TWEAA DC 1 year ago

THIS IS NO NEW NEWS...THE FACT STILL REMAINS THAT TETTEH QUASHIE BROUGHT COCOA TO THE THEN GOLD COAST...TWEAA.

THIS IS NO NEW NEWS...THE FACT STILL REMAINS THAT TETTEH QUASHIE BROUGHT COCOA TO THE THEN GOLD COAST...TWEAA.
Toto 1 year ago

A university of agriculture should be named after him.

A university of agriculture should be named after him.
Ojoo 1 year ago

A missionary who also carried his blacksmith tools?

A missionary who also carried his blacksmith tools?
Loner 1 year ago

Yes, the Akans should honor him by naming a building or street after him in their region.

Yes, the Akans should honor him by naming a building or street after him in their region.
Osei 1 year ago

Tetteh Quarshie was an Asante from Bompata. His parents migrated to Accra where he was born. While he was still a baby, his parents migrated again to Mampong where he grew up. His father was a blacksmith and his mother a weal ...
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Tetteh Quarshie was an Asante from Bompata. His parents migrated to Accra where he was born. While he was still a baby, his parents migrated again to Mampong where he grew up. His father was a blacksmith and his mother a wealthy trader.
Fastook 1 year ago

evil liar

evil liar
Toto 1 year ago

Tetteh Quarshie was a Ga. His parents were from Teshie and Labadi.

Tetteh Quarshie was a Ga. His parents were from Teshie and Labadi.
Ogyagyatah 1 year ago

Every good thing is from Asante and the bad ones from Other Tribes oh my Brother cant you learn we in the 21st century

Every good thing is from Asante and the bad ones from Other Tribes oh my Brother cant you learn we in the 21st century
Sam Fante warrior. 1 year ago

@Osei. There's any good things comes out of you foolish blood vipers primitives Ashantis ? Illiterates educated villagers stay in your typical forest like monkeys and learn your Okomfou Anokye and Yaa Asantwaa history and lea ...
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@Osei. There's any good things comes out of you foolish blood vipers primitives Ashantis ? Illiterates educated villagers stay in your typical forest like monkeys and learn your Okomfou Anokye and Yaa Asantwaa history and leave the people of the south alone, you monkey can't compare your stinking self with people of south. Foolish animals toilet soup eaters, ugly dark monkeys with red eyes.
1999 1 year ago

Don't mind these Asantis. Sick people living in that forest and behaving like the gorillas and monkeys they share an environment with. Even circumcision, it took Ewes and Ga to teach them. Foolish kortibortor people. They wer ...
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Don't mind these Asantis. Sick people living in that forest and behaving like the gorillas and monkeys they share an environment with. Even circumcision, it took Ewes and Ga to teach them. Foolish kortibortor people. They were kortibortor like the gorillas and monkeys they live with. Foolish man.
1999 1 year ago

Evil Asantimen and lies. Evil souls. Shut up and let us hear.
Evil liars. Culture thieves. Everything good must be from Asantis right? You evil souls.

Evil Asantimen and lies. Evil souls. Shut up and let us hear.
Evil liars. Culture thieves. Everything good must be from Asantis right? You evil souls.
KSB 1 year ago

Is this even necessary??

Noise makers like you Osei should use their brains to know that everything isn’t about tribalism. You always make others insult Asantes.
What importance does where Tetteh Quashie came from does ...
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Is this even necessary??

Noise makers like you Osei should use their brains to know that everything isn’t about tribalism. You always make others insult Asantes.
What importance does where Tetteh Quashie came from does to us??
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Martin A 1 year ago

What is now Ghana's number one export crop is the result of Tetteh Quarshie illegally bringing the crop to the then Gold Coast. His brazen act of theft has placed Ghana on the world scene as one of the leading exporters of c ...
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What is now Ghana's number one export crop is the result of Tetteh Quarshie illegally bringing the crop to the then Gold Coast. His brazen act of theft has placed Ghana on the world scene as one of the leading exporters of cocoa.
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Nsia 1 year ago

Personally, I have a lot of admiration for Tetteh Quarshie, but he was not the first person to bring cocoa seed or plant to Gold Ciast/ Ghana. He was the most successful out of the lot. The Portuguese brought us a lot of cro ...
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Personally, I have a lot of admiration for Tetteh Quarshie, but he was not the first person to bring cocoa seed or plant to Gold Ciast/ Ghana. He was the most successful out of the lot. The Portuguese brought us a lot of crops : Plantain, Cassava, Tomato, Chilli Peppers, Pineapple, Guava, Cocoyam, Pawpaw, Avocado etc. Just like Mr Quarshie, they initially planted the cocoa along the coast which was a recipe for disaster. Black Missionaries that came from Jamaica such as Alexander Worthy Clerk, also brought cocoa to the Gold Coast in the early 1840s, again, they failed because they planted their seeds along the Accra plains. In a nutshell, Mr Quarshie succeeded while others failed but he was definitely not the first person to bring cocoa to the Gold Coast /Ghana as we are made to believe..
TRUTH 1 year ago

If I were you, I would shut up with this misinformation.

Do you know why it is said, he smuggled the cocoa.
Do you know who used cocoa at the time.
Why do some of you always want to twist facts?

If I were you, I would shut up with this misinformation.

Do you know why it is said, he smuggled the cocoa.
Do you know who used cocoa at the time.
Why do some of you always want to twist facts?
Nsia 1 year ago

@Truth, you would not know what truth is iif it is stucked on your your nose. Just Google Alexander Worthy Clerk, you will get a bit of info about him to alleviate your ignorance. After that Google who brought corn, Cassav ...
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@Truth, you would not know what truth is iif it is stucked on your your nose. Just Google Alexander Worthy Clerk, you will get a bit of info about him to alleviate your ignorance. After that Google who brought corn, Cassava, plantain, avocado, guava, cocoa etc to West Africa. Your stupidity will be as plain as the nose on your black ignorant face. CHEERS!
Ogyagyatah 1 year ago

You are just like Akufo Addo who is claiming that Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah was not the Funding Father of Morden Ghana

You are just like Akufo Addo who is claiming that Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah was not the Funding Father of Morden Ghana
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Batule 1 year ago

Red soil is not good for farming and farmers. Use black soil only and enjoy what you harvest. Which humans eat Shitt over a period of six weeks.? This explanation makes sense. However there is no public holiday for Tetteh Qua ...
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Red soil is not good for farming and farmers. Use black soil only and enjoy what you harvest. Which humans eat Shitt over a period of six weeks.? This explanation makes sense. However there is no public holiday for Tetteh Quarshie up to now. He wasn't from Kyebi. What Atta 's do with Pension Funds and Databank is more than COCOBOD is doing today. History must be told correctly. Why has the water changed its color? 1 village 1 dam? E levy still paying, and nobody asked where all the EBOLA money went to.
Daakyehene 1 year ago

Very soon NAPO will discredit him

Very soon NAPO will discredit him
kwasi 1 year ago

He smuggled cocoa into ghana and became a hero. Why complain when others smuggle cocoa out of ghana

He smuggled cocoa into ghana and became a hero. Why complain when others smuggle cocoa out of ghana
Cos 1 year ago

But from this nonsense too, ever since Npp came into power all you hear and read is, it is not this person who brought this and that first am shock our president Nana Akufto Addo & the Loading mate Matthew Opoku a.k.a Napo sa ...
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But from this nonsense too, ever since Npp came into power all you hear and read is, it is not this person who brought this and that first am shock our president Nana Akufto Addo & the Loading mate Matthew Opoku a.k.a Napo saying all this nonsense history at their age. Instead focusing on our hardship economy, the LGBT is at the corner, the President should sign the anti LGBT document at Parliament we still have not forgotten. This bloggers kuraaa don't you also have sense? You support them whenever their speak nonsense. Left be careful in this country Ghana. Npp must go to opposition to learn from their mistakes.
Mr Takyi 1 year ago

Its all lies, coacoa is in ghana for centuriers but it wasn,t used as it is now . Our ancestors were using coacoa as okra is being used in soupes and sourses for fufu and ampesie and it,s even right now in some part of the ...
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Its all lies, coacoa is in ghana for centuriers but it wasn,t used as it is now . Our ancestors were using coacoa as okra is being used in soupes and sourses for fufu and ampesie and it,s even right now in some part of the country this delicious and healthy fruit is still used like okro but it was stopped due to commercial bases . so our ancestors stopped eating coacoa after they learnt from brazil merchants in some part of the continent that our brand of coacoa is even the best than the Amazonia coacoa in brazil.
Riccardo 1 year ago

Cocoa was reintroduced to the Gold Coast by Tetteh Quarshie. The Basel missionary has first brought Cocoa beans from the Americas, they started the plantation in the Eastern region but because the farmers were unsophisticated ...
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Cocoa was reintroduced to the Gold Coast by Tetteh Quarshie. The Basel missionary has first brought Cocoa beans from the Americas, they started the plantation in the Eastern region but because the farmers were unsophisticated in Cocoa production it collapsed
When Tetteh Quarshie travelled to Fernan Do Po he knew about the beans already because he lived in the Basel missionary
1999 1 year ago

It's ridiculous to say 1879 and call it Ghana. When did Ghana come into being? Can you tell me where the Geographical areas Ghana was up to and where the Gold Coast was up to?
Why do you say Ghana when in 1879 Ghana did NOT ...
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It's ridiculous to say 1879 and call it Ghana. When did Ghana come into being? Can you tell me where the Geographical areas Ghana was up to and where the Gold Coast was up to?
Why do you say Ghana when in 1879 Ghana did NOT exist.?!
Why do you say Ghana when in 1879 the Colony called Gold was where he came ( where his tribes men) from and where he brought the seed to?.
Can you not tell when Asanti region and the entire Northern territory were administratively added to the Gold Coast? Foolish people just write and say nonsense. Learn to date history well and stop the rubbish.
King 1 year ago

That guy who goes by the name osei might not be an ashanti .... It maybe one of those tribal bigots who is just trying to instigate hate against the ashantis ... Am not an ashanti myself but I believe that guy who ever it has ...
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That guy who goes by the name osei might not be an ashanti .... It maybe one of those tribal bigots who is just trying to instigate hate against the ashantis ... Am not an ashanti myself but I believe that guy who ever it has hates the ashantis .... Back to the subject I believe Tetteh Quarshie might be a Ga man ...period ... And kudos to him for bringing those pods to the country ... A national hospital named after him is worth it .....

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