I thought you might enjoy a visit to a terrific school located close to our production facility in Tema, Ghana. First Star Academy is a relatively new private school whose students pay modest fees. The school touts outstanding academic performance and out of some 26,000 elementary and secondary schools in Ghana, First Star Academy ranks among the two dozen or so top schools in the country — a remarkable achievement for a school without the alumni resources of some of the legacy private schools that have been around since British colonial times.
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Omanhene in the UK
Ghana was a former colony of the United Kingdom and was the first sub-Saharan country to gain its independence, so there is an enormous historical legacy here. It is a legacy that bears the full measure of very mixed emotions for many Ghanaians. It was important for Omanhene to show that Ghana has come of age and can now produce not simply the commodity crop of cocoa but it now manufactures luxury chocolate that can compete with the best Europe has to offer.
Omanhene in Japan
Omanhene has had a presence in Japan for some 15 years. We decided to enter the market for two reasons: 1) Japan has perhaps the most stringent food safety laws in the world and it was important to demonstrate that an African-produced luxury product was truly world standard when it came to product purity; and 2) Japan is an extremely demanding consumer market with high standards for both product quality and packaging. If we can sell there — we can sell anywhere.