“Book Descriptions: At ten years old, Abéna worked with her grandfather in the cocoa plantations in Cameroon. This valiant little general of the equatorial forests will quickly take the measure of the human and environmental damage caused by the monoculture of the precious bean at the base of chocolate. While African countries provide about two-thirds of the world's cocoa production, what is behind the trade in this raw material among the most prized in the world? In the North, young and old love desserts and sweets, but are they aware of the misery that "cacaomania" inflicts on Africa?
Through the journey of Abéna, Chocolaté reveals to us the dark side of cocoa cultivation, emblematic of the neocolonial economic relations that the multinationals of green gold maintain with the countries of the South. Poverty of producers, forced child labor, pesticide poisoning, water and soil contamination, massive deforestation, loss of biodiversity... For the African producing countries which only receive a tiny fraction of the tens of billions of dollars earned each year by the industry, the cultivation of cocoa has a very bitter taste.” DRIVE
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