Stirring interest in Kenyan coffee

For instance, farmers were used to selling their coffee to the Kenya Planters Co-operative Union. When Thika Coffee Mills came up, a vicious competition riddled with incitement and mudslinging ensued, she recalls.

How does the CEO like her coffee?

“Black,” she says, “without sugar.” She says she comfortably asks for githeri (maize and beans) when she wants “a good meal”.

Often, she spends her leisure time at the gymnasium. This explains her athletic but petite frame.

bmuiruri@nation.co.ke