Photo: G. Pascal Zachary
Cash crops like coffee, cocoa, and tea have seen their global prices soar in recent years, which in general has been good for African growers. So why are these tea pickers so unhappy? “They work for a government-owned tea company in Malawi, and they’re upset because they have not been paid for a month,” says Zachary. “Government [in Africa] still doesn’t work as well as it might.”
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