Uganda: Starbucks Ready to Brew Ugandan Coffee

Kampala — When Paul Sempa-Mugambwa, former proprietor of Kyagalanyi Coffee Ltd, received an offer for his firm way back in 1992 from a foreign investor, it did not look like an impending end to a whole generation of local coffee processing entrepreneurs.

It was however only a matter of time before most of the indigenous coffee entrepreneurs gave in to pressure to sell their plants to cash draped foreign investors who, unknown to local entrepreneurs, had discovered a new niche in the international coffee market.

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