Tetteh Quarshie GaDangme nyobi from osu Tetteh Quarshie i ntroduction of cocoa crops to Gold Coast Tetteh Quarshie swallowed cocoa beans and pooped it out when he came to Ghana’, sounds familiar? I’m pretty sure it is what the majority of school pupils heard about the now-famous cocoa farmer whose legacy has exceeded him. What story have you heard about how cocoa came to Ghana? Not the Dutch or Basel Missionaries version, but the version about Osu- born and bred, Tetteh Quarshie. A visit to the farm by GhanaWeb’s Wonder Hagan revealed the true history behind how the uneducated blacksmith brought cocoa back home from Fernando Po. A blacksmith’s toolbox, that’s what six cocoa pods were hidden in and shipped back into the then Gold Coast Considering he was on a missionary journey in Fernando Po, he was required to pass through the checkpoint, like every individual returni...