Ghana is rich in gold, oil and cocoa...so why are its people poor? | The 77 Percent Street Debate

Ghana is rich in gold, oil and cocoa — but why are so many people still struggling? Is colonialism still to blame, or are today's leaders failing their people? It's a heated debate about ownership, corruption and whether Africa can finally turn its natural wealth into prosperity.

01:04 — The central question: Resource rich but capital poor
01:21 — Life in Ghana's resource-extraction zones
02:26 — Cape Coast Castle and 500 years of extraction history
02:41 — Why small-scale gold miners are not wealthy
03:47 — Foreign ownership and the case for nationalization
06:36 — What's the economic cost of exporting unprocessed raw materials?
08:10 — Kwame Nkrumah's overthrow and the failure of government
11:06 — Colonial blueprints and the roots of post-independence failure
12:02 — Local accountability: Whose fault is the wealth gap?
13:47 — Is it time for a revolution?
16:51 — The cocoa problem: Ghana's lost value chain
18:18 — Corruption at the Cocoa Board and the collapse of cocoa farming
19:31 — Education, mindset, and building local technical capacity
25:20 — Can Africans finally own their own wealth?

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