Comments on: Welcome to African Arguments Online http://africanarguments.org/2009/01/welcome-to-african-arguments-online/ Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:01:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Zedbooks http://africanarguments.org/2009/01/welcome-to-african-arguments-online/comment-page-1/#comment-27756 Zedbooks Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:07:10 +0000 http://africanarguments.org/?p=21#comment-27756 The next title in the African Arguments series is <a href="http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/book.asp?bookdetail=4368" rel="nofollow">Chocolate Nations </a> by Orla Ryan due December 2010. We would like to ask if you would be able to feature Chocolate Nations on your African Arguments blog as a future title. Perhaps an image of the title, the blurb and brief details about the author. If so, here are the details of the author and book - is there an appropriate email in order to send an attachment of the book cover? Chocolate Nations: Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa Orla Ryan works for the Financial Times in London. She lived in Africa for more than four years, first in Uganda, and then in Ghana, where she worked for Reuters. FROM BEAN TO BAR - WHERE DOES YOUR CHOCOLATE COME FROM? Chocolate - the very word conjures up a hint of the forbidden and a taste of the decadent. Yet the story behind the chocolate bar is rarely one of luxury... From the thousands of children who work on plantations to the smallholders who harvest the beans, Chocolate Nations reveals the hard economic realities of our favorite sweet. This vivid and gripping exploration of the reasons behind farmer poverty includes the human stories of the producers and traders at the heart of the West African industry. In doing so, Orla Ryan shows how only a tiny fraction of the cash we pay for a chocolate bar actually makes it back to the farmers, and how Fairtrade makes very little difference on the ground. Provocative and eye-opening, Chocolate Nations exposes the true story of how the treat we love makes it on to our supermarket shelves. Regards, <strong>James Richardson</strong> <strong><em>Marketing Assistant - Zedbooks </em></strong> The next title in the African Arguments series is Chocolate Nations by Orla Ryan due December 2010. We would like to ask if you would be able to feature Chocolate Nations on your African Arguments blog as a future title. Perhaps an image of the title, the blurb and brief details about the author.
If so, here are the details of the author and book – is there an appropriate email in order to send an attachment of the book cover?
Chocolate Nations: Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa
Orla Ryan works for the Financial Times in London. She lived in Africa for more than four years, first in Uganda, and then in Ghana, where she worked for Reuters.
FROM BEAN TO BAR – WHERE DOES YOUR CHOCOLATE COME FROM?
Chocolate – the very word conjures up a hint of the forbidden and a taste of the decadent. Yet the story behind the chocolate bar is rarely one of luxury…
From the thousands of children who work on plantations to the smallholders who harvest the beans, Chocolate Nations reveals the hard economic realities of our favorite sweet. This vivid and gripping exploration of the reasons behind farmer poverty includes the human stories of the producers and traders at the heart of the West African industry. In doing so, Orla Ryan shows how only a tiny fraction of the cash we pay for a chocolate bar actually makes it back to the farmers, and how Fairtrade makes very little difference on the ground.
Provocative and eye-opening, Chocolate Nations exposes the true story of how the treat we love makes it on to our supermarket shelves.

Regards,
James Richardson
Marketing Assistant – Zedbooks

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