Roasted Coffee It started with a word. Izere. Hope.
Not a marketing term. Not a tagline picked from a list. A Kinyarwanda word that Rwandan mothers whisper to their children, that farmers carry into the fields at dawn, that women hold onto through seasons of uncertain harvest.
Tonny Butera grew up surrounded by this hope — and spent fifteen years learning how to honour it scientifically.
— The Problem He Saw —
A broken chain.
Rwanda has some of the world's most celebrated coffee — vibrant citrus acidity, crisp floral notes, rich chocolate …
