*Drinking raw cocoa tea fights COVID-19, says expert A professor of Human Anatomy and promoter of cocoa consumption for better health, Frederick Kwaku Addai, in Ghana, has welcomed China into cocoa export trade and encouraged African producers to explore value chain development. He said African cocoa producers need to be discouraged from exporting only cocoa beans and get serious at adding value and promoting local consumption of cocoa-based products. Adding value, he said, would boost wealth and job creation, gross domestic products, and local consumption that would oil the African economies. x “Despite the knowledge that Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire account for over 50 per cent of world cocoa output, they receive less than 10 per cent of the world chocolate revenue. No serious effort is being made to lay claim to fair share of post-bean cocoa revenue. Why? In Ghana, I sense that we’re too satisfied announcing the tonnage of cocoa beans exported every year.