manywema

Updated: May 10, 2025

The coffee-shrub, like the copal-tree, belts Africa from east to west from Harar, where I saw it, through Karagué, where it grows wild, the bean not being larger than a pin's head, to Manywema, in the Congo valley, and to the West Coast, especially about the Rio Nunez, north of Sierra Leone. It is of the finest quality, second only to the Mocha; but what hope is there of its development?

Sir Richard Francis Burton - To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II: A Personal Narrative