The History of the Migration of Ghana Cocoa Farmers

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Title:	The History of the Migration of Ghana Cocoa Farmers
Author:	Hill, Polly
Year:	1959
Periodical:	Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana
Volume:	4
Issue:	1
Pages:	14-28
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Ghana
Subjects:	internal migration farmers cocoa History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Urbanization and Migration
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/41405721
Abstract:	Most of the best cocoa land of Southern Ghana (outside Ashanti with which this article is not concerned) was originally opened up by strangerfarmers who travelled to the area for the express purpose of growing cocoa. Such was this movement of peoples from the overcrowded Akwapim scarp and the South-eastern coastal belt northwards into the forest country, that by 1911 the Gold Coast had become the world's largest cocos exporter. It is with the travelling farmers who first exploited the forests of Southern Akim country that this paper is primarily concerned. Maps. (Uitvoeriger artikel in Africa, 31 (1961) no 3, p. 209-230).