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2026-10-17 issue

Observed arrival · 2026-10-17

Commodity / Couture puts cocoa growers at the center

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An art installation pairs eight Ghanaian cocoa farmers’ accounts with a limited-edition brass cocoa pod.

Landing page captured for the 2026-10-17 issue.
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Farmers’ English text sits beside Twi audio controls; the site says a brass pod was cast in an edition of fifteen.

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The page presents eight named farmers from Adumadum, with English quotations and individual Twi audio controls; several describe sharecropping, labor, family livelihoods, and hopes for fairer pay. Its object account traces the brass pod to a real pod from a family farm in Akyem Tafo and identifies Kumasi lost-wax caster Emmanuel Fosu. The page also says the edition numbers fifteen; its film is marked “Loading,” so the extract does not confirm that video is available.

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