Special Report Covid Coffee ChroniclesEpisode 74Kahawa 1893Educate a Girl, Educate a Village

This episode with a single guest, is a little bit on the long side, but the time will fly by as you listen! Kenya, coffee, slavery, Blockchain, the unbanked, Black owned business challenges, women’s rights and empowerment… and that’s just in the first 10 minutes! Powerful questions asked and answered about inequality, the color of our skin, and assumptions that need to be dealt with. What is active vs passive racism?

With a huge economic inequality in the global coffee industry, find out what this CEO Margaret Nyamumbo is doing to rectify this imbalance. Listen to the pure logic of using coffee as a vessel to improve the quality of life, create a living wage and thereby improve society as a whole. From third generation coffee farmer in Kenya to founder and CEO of coffee company Kahawa 1893 Margaret talks about the hurdles she overcame to be able to get to where she is now. What is she often mistaken for at conferences with coffee big wigs and why??This week in addition to coffee flavor exploration we also get a brief history lesson. When the British arrived, what was the one strong advantage that they had going for them in Africa? Who had to fight for the right to not only grow coffee but drink it? Margaret’s ancestors played a pivotal role in how she landed in the business she is in today.

How is the fighting for the rights of women in Kenya directly tied to her coffee brand? And how does the new way of banking, currency and reimbursement play directly into what she sees as a successful future for her countrymen?

Swahili, coffee and Kahawa 1893, origins of coffee? origins of humans? Get out your note taking apparatus because you are gonna get schooled!When you buy coffee at a chain, or any coffee shop, just how much of that purchase actually goes to the women who provide the labor? And what exactly does digital currency, M-Pesa and Blockchain have to do with it?Want to not only have some great coffee but feel good at the same time? You can! Start by buying Margaret’s coffee. Thus begins a chain reaction that supports multiple levels of independence,empowerment, community development and economic and social advancement in equality. One heck of a lot for buying a bag of beans!!

Listen to our next episode in the Covid Coffee Chronicles series on coffee and social injustice. Knowledge is power, so be brave and ask the hard questions. Remember we can all do something.

The saying in Swahili is “If you educate the girl you educate a community”.Enjoy, educate, empower and do good all with your next sip!

Check out this weeks Spotify Playlist for all the songs recommend by our guest.

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Stayed tuned for additional new episodes of Covid Coffee Chronicles later this month!Remember if you have a question,or topic you want us to follow up on from this week, or any other episode of the CCCRS,we are happy to try to get that done in the segment we call Free Refills. Just leave us a message at are web-pagehttps://crosscountrycoffeeroadshow.com/