S7 E10: The Extracted

Scene on Radio: Capitalism

Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University

Society & Culture, Audiodoc, Radio, Documentary, Stories

4.9 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

A visit to West Africa and Western Europe to look at the cocoa trade. Did the colonial side of early capitalism – Western countries getting rich at the expense of poorer nations – ever change, or does it continue today?

Reported by Ugochi Anyaka-Oluigbo and written by Ugochi and Loretta Williams, with co-hosts John Biewen and Ellen McGirt. Story editor: Loretta Williams. Mixed by John Biewen. Interviews with Achike Chude, Chernoh Bah, Bart Van Besien, and others. Music by Michelle Osis, Lilli Haydn, Chris Westlake, Alex Symcox, and Goodnight, Lucas. Music consulting by Joe Augustine of Narrative Music. "Capitalism” is a production of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, in partnership with Imperative 21.

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0:00.0	I'm David Remnickin each week on the New Yorker radio hour. My colleagues and I
0:04.8	unpack what's happening in a very complicated world. You'll hear from the New
0:09.2	Yorker's award-winning reporters and thinkers,
0:11.7	Gilani Cobb on race and justice,
0:14.0	Jill Lepore on American history,
0:16.0	Vincent Cunningham and Gia Tolantino on culture,
0:19.0	Bill McKibbon on climate change and many more.
0:22.0	To get the context behind events in the news, climate change and many more.
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0:25.3	listen to the New Yorker radio hour,
0:27.5	wherever you get your podcast.
0:31.0	Alan's silly question for you. Do you like chocolate?
0:35.0	Oh yes, I like chocolate in all its forms. How about you, John?
0:41.0	Yes. Love me, especially some good dark chocolate. about you I won't name, although, yes, in my household, we've sometimes gone for the chocolate bars
0:56.4	from less famous brands that feature the fair trade label, meaning they claim to pay the cocoa growers a decent price.
1:05.0	Well good on you and your household John.
1:08.0	I appreciate you for shopping that way.
1:11.0	I guess I don't know as much as I'd like to know about the global
1:14.2	chocolate marketplace but my guess is we're about to learn all about it.
1:18.8	Yeah and after hearing this reporting that we're about to share, my chocolate shopping may never be the same.
1:27.0	Early in this series, we had a lot to say about the relationship between capitalism and colonialism. The European countries that revved capitalism into motion a few hundred years ago
1:38.9	did so using riches that they'd extracted, often using force from countries in Africa, Asia, and the new world.
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