Coffee is one of Tanzania's leading industries.
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Baseball legend Jackie Robinson taught his son that the value of a man is determined by one thing: the size of his contribution to the world.
In many ways, David Robinson has followed in his late father's footsteps. But he was never a baseball player. David Robinson sells coffee and lives in a place where no one even cares about the New York Yankees.
His unusual journey began 15 years ago, when he moved to Tanzania, in Africa, to rediscover his roots. Moved by the beauty and poverty there, he purchased land for a cooperative coffee farm--in hopes of helping local farmers join together to build a thriving business. |
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Journal News Article
A Joint Venture
NPR Interview on Weekend Edition (Scroll Down)
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