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What country makes the best chocolate? A lot of people would answer "Switzerland," or, if they are discerning, "Belgium" or "France." But, just how many cocoa trees expand in Zurich? Lyon? Antwerp? Shouldn't the country known for growing the best cocoa coffee beans be the the one that makes the best chocolate? So, captivated by theories of international trade but with precious little understanding of cocoa or chocolate, Steven Wallace set out to build the Omanhene Cocoa Bean Company in Ghana - a country renowned for its cocoa and where Wallace spent part of his youth - in a goal to create the world's first export-ready, single-origin chocolate bar. What used would be the real story of an obroni - white person - from Wisconsin taking on the ultimate entrepreneurial challenge. Written with sensitivity and devastating self-awareness, Obroni and the Chocolate Manufacturing plant is Steven's chaotic, attractive, and bemusing quest to create a successful international business that aspired do a bit of good on the globe. This book is at once a penetrating business memoir and a tale about imagining globalism done right. Wallace's picaresque quest takes him to Ghana's house for the top of condition, to the Amsterdam office buildings of a secretive international cocoa conglomerate, and face-to-face with key figures in the sharp-elbowed world of global trade and geopolitics. Along the way he'll be required to package with bureaucratic roadblocks, a legacy of colonialism, corporate and business intrigue, inscrutable international politics, a Bond-esque villain nemesis, and frequent uncertainty about whether he'll actually move it off. This rollicking love letter to both Ghana and the world of business is a uncommon glimpse in to the mind of an unusually literate and articulate businessman.
