Black Gold - Antony Wild
KSh2,990.00
Description
Black Gold: The Dark History of Coffee by Antony Wild
That innocent cup of coffee in your hand? It’s steeped in 500 years of alchemy, slavery, revolutions, and ruthless corporate power. Antony Wild — coffee trader turned whistle-blower — traces the bean from Ethiopian highlands to Starbucks, exposing the blood, sweat, and betrayal behind the world’s most traded commodity after oil. Buy in Kenya with Fast Delivery.
What you’ll learn
- How coffee went from forbidden Sufi ritual to the fuel of the Enlightenment
- The brutal role of slavery and colonial forced labour in Yemen, Java, Haiti, and Brazil
- Why London and Paris coffee houses were once hotter beds of revolution than taverns
- How today’s rock-bottom prices keep millions of farmers in poverty while giants rake in billions
- What fair trade actually achieves — and where it still falls tragically short
Who should read the Book
Every coffee addict who claims to love the brew, history nerds, ethical consumers, business students, or anyone in Kenya who knows coffee isn’t just a drink — it’s part of our story too.
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