The Cocoa Paradox: Africa's Sweetest Injustice

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]The cocoa.

[00:00:01]Africa produces roughly 70% of the world's cocoa supply.

[00:00:06]70%.

[00:00:08]You would expect African nations to dominate the chocolate industry.

[00:00:12]Instead, they earn less than 6% of the global chocolate industry's total revenue.

[00:00:19]The beans leave African ports for pennies.

[00:00:22]They return as finished chocolate bars sold for dollars with European brand names printed on the wrapper.

[00:00:29]The processing, the packaging, the advertising, the retail, that is where fortunes are made. And that entire chain exists elsewhere.

[00:00:38]Africa does the hardest, dirtiest, lowest paid part of the work while others collect the profit.