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Article: How I went bananas in Ghana; An exclusive peek into Harry Hill's diary of his trip to Ghana, where he discovers how the banana trade is benefiting impoverished workers.(Features)
- Article from:
- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 9, 2002
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Byline: HARRY HILL
When the people from Fairtrade contacted me about a trip to Ghana to visit a banana plantation, I thought, "Great! Bananas!" It's not the sort of thing you get in holiday brochures and, besides, I am a well-known collector of the stickers that you get on bananas. I've got 10.
When I found out Ghana was in West Africa and not just off the M4 near Stroud, I asked if I could take my brother Rodney, who runs an organic farm in Devon. Then it dawned on me that I'd be travelling to the Third World and would require injections. "Four," said the ...
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