Angela Ukomadu's Blog

   How do you like your coffee? Instant? Freshly brewed? Or like me? All I do is add a little coffee to my chocolate drink so I can just perceive the awesome coffee smell. Well if you love the freshly brewed one, and you live in Lagos, Nigeria, then you are in luck as Kaldi Africa is making sure you have this.    A new culture around coffee is forming in Nigeria targeting a growing middle-class that is ready to spend while meeting in coffee shops opening around the city of Lagos.    One of such is Kaldi Africa, a beverage processing company that is marketing locally roasted and processed coffee to Nigerians.    They source their beans from Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya. The beans are de-stoned, grounded and blended to obtain various flavours, before being packaged in different sizes for sale.    Nearly ten percent of the world's coffee still comes from the African continent. Nigeria produced just 2,100 tons of coffee in 2013 compared to production in Ethiopia, Africa's bigge

   Just like every part of the palm tree is used for one thing or the other, so it is for the snail🐌 too. Absolutely nothing goes to waste. The flesh is used for meat, said to be highly nutritious and low in cholesterol. The slime is used for cosmetic products that can help to regenerate skin cells and heal wounds. The shell is blended and used for poultry feeds or fertilizer! Yep yep, didn't know about that until this story.    So there is also a huge market out there for the African giant snails that are in abundance in the country. People are buying these up and exporting to other countries like the UK, America and Europe...but to send to America, the snails need to be cleaned and freezed, but for other countries, they can be exported alive as far as you do a proper documentation and meet the required health approval of the said country. America considers the creature as a highly voracious and invasive pest that poses a risk to agriculture, the environment and public health