Tetteh quarshie biography sample

Pre-independence Ghanaian agriculturist (c.1842–1892)

Tetteh Quarshie (c.

Tetteh quarshie biography sample pdf

1842 – 25 December 1892) was a agriculturalist in the British Colony of Gold Coast and the person directly responsible for the introduction of cocoa crops to Gold Coast, which today constitute one of the major export crops of the Ghanaian economy, the country Gold Coast became in 1957.

Quarshie travelled to the island of Fernando Po (now Bioko in Equatorial Guinea) in 1870 and returned in 1876 to Ghana in order to introduce the crop. He died on Christmas Day 1892.

Biography

Tetteh Quarshie was born in about 1842 to a farmer from Teshie known as Mlekubo.

Tetteh quarshie biography sample

His mother was known as Ashong-Fio from Labadi, both hailing from the Ga-Dangme ethnic group. In his teens Tetteh Quarshie became an apprentice in a Basel Mission workshop at Akropong. Due to his hard work he soon became a master blacksmith and was in fact the first blacksmith to be established at Akuapim-Mampong.^[1] His h