**Kenten Cocoa Processing Factory** is a cocoa-processing plant at **Kenten, near Tema in the Greater Accra Region**, established under the Nkrumah-era drive to process Ghana's cocoa at home rather than exporting only raw beans. The story behind it is really the story of Ghana's industrialisation push. After independence in 1957, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah argued that a country which grows the world's finest cocoa should not be shipping it all out raw and importing chocolate, cocoa butter and liquor at premium prices. The answer was a network of state-owned processing plants — the **Tema Cocoa Processing Factory** (which became the core of what is today **Cocoa Processing Company / Golden Tree**), the **Takoradi** plant, and the **Kenten** factory — designed to turn Ghanaian beans into cocoa butter, liquor, cake, powder and confectionery for local consumption and export. Kenten sits in the **Kpone-Katamanso** area of Greater Accra, close enough to Tema's harbour and industrial enclave to make haulage and export practical. Over the decades the plant passed through the familiar arc of Ghanaian state industry: early promise, then the shocks of the 1970s–80s — collapsing cocoa output, foreign-exchange shortages, spare-parts drought and under-capacity operation — followed by various rehabilitation and divestiture attempts under the ERP and later governments. Like its sister plants, Kenten has at different times operated well below installed capacity, and its fortunes have tracked the wider question of how much of Ghana's cocoa actually gets processed locally (still only a fraction of the annual crop, despite the "process more at home" policy goal repeated by successive governments). Culturally, Kenten belongs to the same national project as the **Tema** and **Takoradi** factories: proof that "Ghana mpoano" — the cocoa that built the nation — could be finished on Ghanaian soil. The Akan proverb *"Se wo were fi na wosan kofa a, yenkyi"* (Sankofa — go back and fetch it) fits the recurring policy instinct to return to Nkrumah's processing vision. One honest caveat: I don't have verified current reporting on Kenten's **present operating status, ownership or capacity** as of 2026 — state cocoa plants have changed hands and been rehabilitated repeatedly, and I won't invent a current figure. If you want, I can search deeper for the latest on Kenten's operational state, or pull up the Cocoa Processing Company (Golden Tree) and Tema factory listings on GhanaMann for the fuller picture.