Gold Coast Cocoa Talking Drums Empire Marketing BoardOriginal vintage advertising poster for Gold Coast Cocoa entitled The Talking Drums issued by the Empire Marketing Board featuring a great image of native Africans wearing traditional colourful clothing, sitting under parasols with a man playing music on a drum using curved drumsticks (an historical instrument that mimics the tone and pitch of human speech), with the text below British goods exported to the Gold Coast totalled 1,590,000 in 1906 and