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ERIC PACKHAM ; Colonial civil servant in Ghana
2007
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In so far as one individual can be said to have saved Ghana's cocoa industry that individual is surely [Eric Stewart Packham] - Secretary of Agriculture in Accra in the 1950s. Packham made it an almost personal crusade to urge his many African friendstoadoptmorecarefulwaysoftendingthe cocoa. Had he not done so, Ghana's plantations might have gone the same way as the ill-fated ground-nuts scheme initiated by John Strachey in the 1940s. Eric Packham was the son of an army officer. Born in Ipswich, he attended Hove Grammar School and then the London School of Economics. After undertaking a postgraduate Colonial Officers' Development Course in 1938 at Peterhouse, Cambridge, he was posted to the Gold Coast just before the outbreak of war. He enlisted in the Gold Coast Regiment and saw fighting in Abyssinia and Italy - returning to the Gold Coast in 1946, and becoming Secretary for Agriculture in 1952; he was to remain in post for four years after the colony won its independence as Ghana in 1957.
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