Humans began in Africa and so also did coffee. One might even ask which came first!
Just kidding -- we know that it was the people of Abyssinia (now part of Ethiopia) who discovered arabica around 1800 years ago. The origin myth of Kaldi and his goats is well known among coffee enthusiasts; recent scholarship on the true stories of these origins is told by Jeff Kohler in Where the Wild Coffee Grows.
The origins of robusta (Coffee canephora v. robusta) in West Africa a few centuries later are not nearly as well studied, even though this variety now comprises 30 percent of global coffee production. This is the first BSU tasting event to include any country-specific research from that part of the continent.
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Ethiopia and the Coffee Trade by Nicholas Bethony
Ethiopia: Scientific Aspects of Coffee by Joseph Gogan
Kenya: "The Best Coffee in the World" by Will Halben
Coffee in Uganda (video) by Maddie Jacques
Ethiopia and Its Fair-Trade Coffee by Tori Kalisz
Nigeria and its Coffee by Charlie Katz
Uganda by Chloe Savaria
Uganda by Ilka Zaniewski
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