From huts in remote villages to internet cafes in the capital city, coffee ceremonies are the centre of social life and hospitality in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee.
BBC Travel
“Give them coffee in the bamboo cups,” instructed Annaz Haile, the family matriarch, as my companion Thomas and I sat among guests at a coffee ceremony she was holding outside her house. We were in rural Bonga, in the southern highlands of Ethiopia’s Kafa region, and the mid-morning sun was quickly burning through the clouds.
Two short documentaries by Thomas Lewton for BBC Travel.