Ethiopia, the home land of coffee plant
By Tsegaye Gebre-Medhin
Ethiopia's poet laureate
More than 1,000 years ago, a goatherd in Ethiopia’s south-western highlands
plucked a few red berries from some young green trees growing there in the
forest and tasted them. He liked the flavour – and the feel-good effect that followed.
By: Mesfin Wolde-Mariam
Professor of Geography
Ethiopia has always been a land of mystery, a mystery that is still unfolding. In the 16th century, Europeans wrote of "the
land of the great Lord Prestor John" who was "the sole Christian ruler in a heathen continent." The land of Presot John
was believed to have abundant agricultural and mineral wealth. This land was rich in gold and important in the
international trade of the time.
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