Addis or Dire Dawa, coffee is all. (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)

From: Tea & Coffee Trade Journal | Date: February 1, 1996| Author: Bell, Jonathan | Copyright information

If one looks back into the past of the Ethiopian coffee trading community, one discovers bygone days of considerable presence and affluence. The community was once very large, rich, and world-known. Existing copies of the long extinct Ethiopian exporters' magazine show the numerous faces of traders whose names were once legendary, and even glimpses of those particularly grand occasions when the coffee trading community would host the old Emperor himself.

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