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American Research Journal of History and Culture
ISSN (Online): 2379-2914
DOI: 10.46568/arjhc
Discourse Analysis of Origin and Distribution of Coffee Arabica
Department of History and Heritage Management, College of Social Science and Humanities, Bule Hora
University, Bule Hora, Oromia, Ethiopia
Endalkachew Lelisa Duressa. “Discourse Analysis of Origin and Distribution of Coffee Arabica”.
American Research Journal of History and Culture ; V4, I1; pp: 1-10
Abstract
This Review primarily focuses on ‘Discourse Analysis of Origin and Distribution of Coffee Arabica’.
The Significance of this review is to present the summary of existing information on the origin and expansion
of Coffee Arabica around the globe and to minimize the degree of controversies among scholars. Information
has been drawn from the works of several authors and oral traditions. For the historical root of coffee and its
discovery, there is no clear direction. Still it is a controversial one among different scholars. However, there are
two competing local areas, which have recently emerged in Southwestern parts of Ethiopia. These are Mankira
of the present Kaffa zone and Coccee of the present Jimma zone. However, these study showed that the former
Limmu Awraja of Gomma district, Coccee Guddaa kebele at a site called ‘katta muuduu ga’a’ is said to be the
historical origin of coffee Arabica. There is no enough studies showing and focus on above controversies on
coffee distribution around the world. It is not yet clear how coffee spread from its birth place of Ennarya regions
to other parts of Ethiopia. It believed that it was during the Oromo expansion of the16th century that coffee
spreading out in Ethiopia regions. Later, it was probably by long distance trade of the 19th century that coffee
disseminated. Next, coffee spread to the rest of the world by Arab merchants and the European colonizers. The
data in this study consisted of the written and oral sources. Secondary data sources were collected by assessing
published and unpublished materials. The available oral traditions were used as sources of data in reviewing
the origin and expansion of coffee in southwestern Ethiopia. After that, the data would be described, expressed
and articulated qualitatively. All the data would be analyzed carefully and interpreted in accordance with the
standardized canons of the social science disciplines based on the nature of information obtained.
