French Missionaries brought the original coffee to East Africa, from Reunion island to TanzaniaIn terms of the Tanzania coffee character, it belongs to the Central/East African family of washed (wet-processed) coffees, bright (acidy), and mostly aggressively flavorful of which Kenya is..., then KenyaKenya is the East African powerhouse of the coffee world. Both in the cup, and the way they run their trade, everything is topnotch.: Kenya is the East.... There are still areas with original BourbonA coffee cultivar; a cross between Typica and Bourbon, originally grown in Brazil: Mundo Novo is a commercial coffee cultivar; a natural hybrid between "Sumatra" and Red Bourbon,... rather than the SL varieties. This Bourbon appears to have Mokka inputs as well, since coffee was brought directly from Aden, YemenYemen has a coffee culture like no other place, and perhaps some of what we enjoy in this cup is due to their old style of trade...: Technically,... to northern Tanzania (Tanganyika) by French fathers, and the two naturally mutated into what was called French Mission coffee.