By MAGESHA NGWIRIMore by this AuthorBack when I was young, there was a plant that I hated with all my might — coffee. Some were forced by circumstances to work as casuals in huge coffee plantations because that was the only way they could supplement the family income. They felt cheated, for they could not buy sweets or mandazi on their way home like their pals would. So, in essence, those from a poor background whose parents did not own coffee bushes considered themselves rich, while those from relatively rich backgrounds whose parents owned a few hundred coffee trees considered themselves poor indeed. Many farmers, therefore, decided to uproot their coffee trees and venture into alternatives.

Source: Daily Nation January 17, 2020 20:48 UTC