Award-winning Film Director, Frank Fiifi Gharbin aspires to win an Oscar Award for Ghana with a new movie to be premiered in April.
At a press conference held at the Accra Tourist Information Centre [ATIC] to unveil actors for the upcoming movie titled ‘Heroes of Africa – Tetteh Quarshie, Zion Train Productions announced that the educative film seeks to tell the real stories of some persons admired for their courage and outstanding achievements in Ghana and beyond.
Heroes of Africa – Tetteh Quarshie movie tells the history of Tetteh Quarshie and how he brought cocoa from Equitorial Guinea into Ghana in 1876, for planting in his Mampong farm.
The film features the likes of Van Vicker, Akwasi Boadi [Akrobeto], Bernard Adusi Poku, Emelia Brobbey, Emmanuel France and some other new faces.
Speaking at the press launch the Executive Producer, Matilda Asare disclosed that the yet-to-be premiered movie is a big-budget production.
Synopsis
It’s about the historical adventure of the man Tetteh Quarshie believed to be the man directly responsible for the introduction of the cash crop, cocoa to Ghana and it’s spread to the rest of the Sub African countries which has become one of the major sources of economic income in Africa.
The myth and legend talks about how Tetteh Quarshie took a voyage to Fernando Po in the colonial era, to work on the slave plantations where cocoa has been discovered and the Spanish Governor has placed a strict death penalty on anyone who tries to steal the Amerando pod seeds to anywhere in Africa, the legend has it that, this man in order to go through the search safely, smartly swallowed the seeds and under the hot chase of the governor and his guards managed to defeat, outwit, and escape the colonial masters and brought the crop to Ghana.
Myth, legend or fiction, there are a lot of national monuments and hospitals named after the man Tetteh Quarshie as one of the heroes of Ghana, Africa and beyond and is remembered in all cocoa-growing countries in Africa.
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