Coffee Origins: Rwanda
Rwanda? Coffee was first brought to Rwanda by German missionaries in 1904, but the country did not produce enough to sell until 1917. The League of Nations mandate stripped Germany of its colonial power over Rwanda after World War I and turned it over to the Belgians. This is why most Rwandan coffee has been exported to Belgium in the past.
The first coffee trees were planted in the Mibirizi mission in Cyangugu province, where the first Rwandan coffee variety, a …