The 1951 Cocoa Hold-Up: Ghanaian Farmers vs. the British Marketing Board

In 1951, Ghanaian cocoa farmers, already squeezed by swollen shoot disease and price controls, launched a mass withholding of their crop from the colonial marketing board. Lucas and Luna dive into how the hold-up became a quiet rebellion against the Cocoa Marketing Board's monopoly, the role of Nana Sir Ofori Atta I, the impact on the push for self-government, and how the protest foreshadowed bigger economic battles after independence. Along the way, they discuss the tangled politics of cocoa pricing, the rise of farmer cooperatives like the Ghana Cocoa Farmers' Association, and the surprising alliance between traditional chiefs and modern nationalists. #CocoaHoldUp #GhanaHistory #CocoaMarketingBoard #NanaOforiAtta #SwollenShoot #GoldCoast #KwameNkrumah #ConventionPeopleParty #FarmerResistance #1951 #ColonialEconomics #WestAfrica #Cocoa #GhanaIndependence #AgriculturalHistory #BritishEmpire #FexingoHistory #History Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo