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Coffee was first discovered growing wild in its natural environment in Ethiopia, which is within the same Great Rift Valley ecosystem in Eastern Africa as the coffee which makes Africafe naturally grows, albeit further to the South in Tanzania in the Karagwe Mountains overlooking Lake Victoria.
Lake Victoria is over 26,600 square miles in size, making it the largest lake in Africa, the largest tropical lake in the world, and the second largest freshwater lake in the world. It is the source of the longest branch of the Nile, the White Nile. The lake is surrounded by Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya.
Lake Victoria ferries have been an important means of transport between Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya since the 1900s. The main ports on the lake are Kisumu, Mwanza, Bukoba, Entebbe, Port Bell and Jinja.
The lake was first encountered by Europeans in 1858 by the British explorer John Speke, who arrived in Karagwe looking for the source of the Nile. He named the lake after the then Queen of the United Kingdom.
Bukoba is a town in the North-West of Tanzania on the Western shore of Lake Victoria, and is the capital of the Kagera Region. Bukoba, with an estimated population of 100,000, has a small airport and regular ferry connections to Mwanza.
Lake Victoria, to the East, dominates Bukoba, as do the two major rivers of Kagera and Ngono, which form swamps on land in close proximity to the lake. Undulating hills and grass savanna, broken by villages with compact banana farms, highlight the landscape.
This texture covers much of the interior, ultimately blending into the Karagwe Mountains to the North-West towards the border with Rwanda. The lake and its abundant rainfall produce a rich variety of fauna and flora, and support a substantial human population.
“Banana and grass culture” is the primary fabric of traditional daily life. The soil in which coffee is grown must be rich, moist, and absorbent enough to accept water readily, but sufficiently loose to allow rapid drainage of excess water. The best soil is composed of leaf mold, other organic matter, and disintegrated volcanic rock. The way that coffee, in which makes Africafe, is naturally grown and nurtured among the banana trees and bean (leguminous) plants, creates optimal conditions for the producing of the finest organic coffee.
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Africafe is a “Certified Organic Instant Coffee” by International certification bodies accredited by the United States (USDA NOP).
Africafe Pure Instant Coffee can be purchased in Canada on–line through Treasures of Africa
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