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Côte d'Ivoire

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Eyi ni Oju -iwe Nipa Rẹ. Aaye yii jẹ aye nla lati fun ipilẹ ni kikun lori ẹniti o jẹ, kini o ṣe ati kini oju opo wẹẹbu rẹ ni lati pese. Tẹ lẹẹmeji lori apoti ọrọ lati bẹrẹ ṣiṣatunkọ akoonu rẹ ati rii daju lati ṣafikun gbogbo awọn alaye ti o yẹ ti o fẹ ki awọn alejo aaye mọ.

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Salimata Coulibaly, Ivory Coast Chocolate Cooperative, Cross Atlantic Chocolate Collective, Cote d'Ivoire

Axel Emmanuel 

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Oludasile & Alakoso

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“Le Chocolatier ivoirien” est la concrétisation de la vision d'un jeune ivoirien, Axel Emmanuel qui a su, à travers sa passion pour le chocolat, exprimer sa manière de voir le monde.

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Awọn iyatọ iyasọtọ, awọn orilẹ -ede ti awọn orilẹ -ede, awọn ibi isere récompenser le talenti et la créativité de ce charismatique otaja ipinfunni d'un quartier populaire de la capitale ivoirienne.

Axel-Emmanuel Gbaou, Ivory Coast, Chocolatier, Cross Atlantic Chocolate Collective, Netflix

Axel Emmanuel Gbaou

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Founder & CEO

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Despite producing 40% of the worlds cocoa, chocolate was too expensive for locals to experience. To change this, Axel left a career in banking to become a chocolatier and in 2015 established Le Chocolatier Ivoirien, to produce chocolate for the Ivorian market. He explains that whilst eating chocolate in the West provides a moment of happiness, for cocoa farmers in the Ivory Coast, it brings misery.

 

Axel has joined forces with a network of farmers and the community cooperative CoopBel, one of 3015 cooperatives demanding better rights and pricing. CoopBel is a groundbreaking organisation that’s managed by 200 women in support of their farmers. Axel was featured in the Netflix documentary Bitter Chocolate and has won many awards including Chocolatier of Ivory Coast, Vice-Chocolatier of Africa and in 2015 President Ouattara named him Young Entrepreneur of the Year.

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Bio courtesy Earth Live. S

Le Chocolatier Ivoirien, Axel Emmanuel, Cross Atlantic Chocolate Collective
Woman and girl with Cacao Pods by Le Chocolatier Ivoirien, Cross Atlantic Chocolate Collective
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