Mehdi Tgen2

Nji Njoya
The Dark Side of Chocolate

The “Dark Side of Chocolate” was produced by Miki Mistrati, a danish journalist who was asking
himself about where the chocolate that’s eating come from and also to investigated the use of child
labor and trafficked children in chocolate production. So he went to germany, where Mistrati asked
vendors where their chocolate comes from, and they told him, in Mali in Africa. Then he fly to Mali
and saw mans children there. After this, he go to the Ivory Coast where the cocoa plantations are
located, where are produced about 60% of the world’s cocoa. He went there with a friends named
Romano and with an hidden camera, and they uncover a world of unjust labor practices as they
explore some of the cacao farms supplying major global chocolate producers.

Despite international labor laws prohibiting the practice, the chocolate industry is rife with child
labor, they discover through conversations with children formerly enslaved on cocoa plantations,
they reveal that while some are outright kidnapped, many child workers (usually aged 7-15) go with
traffickers to the Ivory Coast believing promises of paying jobs and hopeful opportunities. When they
realized that it’s a lied, it’s too late and they can’t come back. The corporation and African
governments do not feel like concerned and that’s because the child labor it’s under their eyes and
make like they didn’t know it.

To resume, for me the “Dark Side of Chocolate” is an informative, bold and heartbreaking look
at what lies behind the chocolate sweets we are eating every single day. And now we understood
that behind this there is a huge child labor it also presents a personal challenge, because when we
buy chocolate from a company like Godiva, Nestlé or Hershey, we’re indirectly contributing to an
exploitative system, it’s the Offer and Demand.