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Kenya’s tea story: From colonial seeds to global powerhouse.

Simba Chai

The Kenya tea industry

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    280 pages

  • Release Date

    23 July 2020

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Summary

Simba Chai is the first comprehensive history of the Kenya tea industry. From experimental plantings by enterprising settlers in the early 1900s, Kenya is now the largest supplier of tea to world markets. This has been achieved in the estates sector under the leadership of major tea companies who are now the country’s largest employer, and then by the development of a smallholder sector now comprising some half a million farmers. Together they contribute Kenya’s most valuable commodi…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781905315086
ISBN-10:1905315082
Author:Sir Michael McWilliam
Publisher:Heritage Hunter
Imprint:Prepare to Publish Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:280
Release Date:23 July 2020
Weight:412g
Dimensions:152mm x 229mm
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Simba Chai by Sir Michael McWilliam - ISBN: 9781905315086
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A4
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About The Author

Sir Michael McWilliam

Sir Michael McWilliam’s childhood was spent on a tea estate in Kenya. At Oxford he did research on the East African tea industry before a banking career with Standard Chartered and then as Director of SOAS. He was a member of the board of the Commonwealth Development Corporation (whose history he wrote), and chairman for many years of the Royal African Society and of the Royal Commonwealth Society. He was appointed KCMG in 1996. In retirement he resumed his interest in the Kenya tea industry.

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