Nigeria Coffee Table Book

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Coffee was first introduced to the country in the late 19th century and exports began soon after that. By the 1930s, the Nigerian government started to promote coffee cultivation by providing farmers with arabica and robusta seedlings.

Coffee production peaked in the country in the late 1960s, mid-1980s, and even saw another peak as recently as 2006, with some 89,000 60kg bags produced. Since then, however, production volumes have dropped by more than 50%.

Instant products currently dominate the Nigerian coffee market. Industry analysts estimate that about 75% of Nigerian coffee consumers drink Nescaf instant coffee. This is often bought from roadside kiosks, which sell Nescaf in larger cities and towns across the country.

Sofia says Vintage Caf will start off growing 300ha of coffee plants and plans to produce high-quality coffee within the next three to four years. The company works with female producers and supports them through education and welfare initiatives.

Many local coffee companies are already helping to change perceptions about coffee consumption with notable levels of success. And if more coffee events are to take place in Nigeria, consumption of higher-quality coffee is likely to keep growing.

A coffee table book needs to be an object of beauty, but to be recommended by experts on Five Books it also needs to be informative and enlightening. Below are all the coffee table books that have been recommended on our site, from Ancient Egypt to expolanets.

We all like to sit with friends and have a relaxing coffee and chat at home. Nothing can ruin our special moment, so we have to take care of every detail. The most important part in the process is played by the coffee table. This furniture piece has to be perfect and to reflect our personality and decorating style. Now, fci London presents new coffee tables selected from luxurious collections released by famous brands.

Our offer shows modern pieces made of durable materials, with modern or classical design, opulent or simple, made of wood, glass, metal, polypropylene, with unconventional or traditional shape. Quality comes first for us, so the pieces that we show are elegant, stylish, practical and easy to adapt, suitable for indoor or outdoor use.

At fci London you have a wide range of coffee tables created by famous brands like Bonaldo, Calligaris, Cattelan Italia, Draenert, Galloti & Radice and many more. Designers have taken every need and decorating style into consideration, so they tempt us with round, squared, rectangle tops and innovative bases made from wood, glass, metal, stone, multicolored or in natural colors.

Galloti & Radice is an innovative brand that releases amazing contemporary furniture pieces. One example is Basalto 12 Coffee Table, made in bright stainless steel structure and with a mirrored glass top. It reflects the objects next to it, creating a dazzling effect in your living room. It can be placed in contemporary interiors or even in classical ensembles.

The purpose of this paper is to examine the coffee culture of citizens of Southern Nigeria. Specifically, different scales were developed to measure coffee culture among the citizens which cover health, socialisation, elitism, culture and commercialisation factors.

A quantitative approach was adopted for the study, and factor analysis was used to analyse the data collected through an online survey. As a result, EFA and CFA showed the test of sphericity and the different fit indexes.

The findings revealed the experiences of consumers and their disposition to coffee consumption to establish coffee culture among the citizens. Largely, the findings revealed that coffee culture is still very low among the citizens and the summation that coffee culture is still in infancy.

Given the importance of coffee culture in the larger world, and acceptance of coffee as a global social drink, the design of a scale that focussed on socialisation, health, elitism, culture and commercialisation factors help to robustly investigate the state of coffee culture among the citizens.

Even though coffee is the most popular legal drug across the world because of its pharmacological effects (Topik, 2009) the disposition of a larger percentage of Nigerians, especially from the southern part of the country, does not align with the claim and assertion. Living or growing up in this part of the country, as a Nigerian, exposes you to certain fables and incredulities about coffee consumption, and these have become premises that define coffee consumption among a larger percentage of indigenes. For instance, teenagers are first exposed to coffee in their secondary school days as an essential stimulant for reading towards the examination. In other words, students learn to consume coffee frequently during the examination period to keep awake to read at night. Secondly, coffee is equally used in religious circles as a stimulant for a night vigil or night prayer to keep awake. There are other unfounded and un-pharmacological reasons why coffee is not popular among citizens in the southern part of Nigeria. For instance, it can lead to anaemia and excessive consumption may result in mental illness.

The experience in the Northern part of the country is quite different, in that coffee consumption is very popular and well embraced among the citizens, and this may not be disconnected from the historical connection, affiliation and positive correlation of coffee with Islam (Topik, 2009; Crawford, 1852). Interestingly, the major cities and towns in the Northern part of the country are dotted with local cafs traditionally known as Mai Sai and they command huge patronage irrespective of time, season, or demographics. The operations of Mai Sai, though in its local and informal practice, may be compared to the business of caf in Europe and North America characterised by ubiquity and variety of products. Likewise, to a certain extent, coffee patronage in Northern Nigeria shares the same semblance with North America and Europe in the areas of socialisation and relaxation.

Importantly, different publications and studies have shown that coffee is not a traditional Nigerian drink (Fitch Solutions, 2019; Financial Times, 2019; Newstex, 2019), but the global popularity and essence of consumption make coffee a global drink. This assertion has a stronghold in Southern Nigeria; hence, the study specifically focusses on coffee consumption among Southern Nigerians. Southern Nigeria shares certain social statistics in terms of education, Christianity, lifestyle and socialisation with Europe and North America; yet, coffee consumption is very low and selectively embraced among a handful of citizens. For instance, while Nigeria with nearly 200 million people consumes 836 tons of coffee, France with about one-third of that population consumed 366,000 tons in 2018 (EuroMonitor International, 2019); this reveals a huge gap in the market that needs to be studied to reveal the factors behind the development.

The relationship between coffee consumption and the elitist factor may vary from one society to another. While it is established that it was first known and consumed by herders in Abyssinia (Ethiopia), the acceptance in Europe started with physicians as a herbal substance in Germany, and its initial embrace among consumers in the UK started with academia in Oxford in 1637 (Topik, 2009). The inkling that coffee is elitist might still subsist in many societies where coffee is not popular, especially when its consumption is attached to a certain position, social class or a particular career or profession.

One of the potential attributes of coffee that have given it mixed feelings and a reaction from both existing consumers and admirers is the question of healthy consumption. While a set of consumers believe that it is a healthy drink with nutritional potentials to improve the health and wellbeing of drinkers, another set of people in the market believe that its consumption can worsen human health especially in the areas of cardiovascular, depression and related mental issues. In other words, the latter category of the market with negative perception adduces their rejection of coffee consumption to a health factor. According to Giacalone et al. (2016), food and beverage quality is determined based on sensory quality (taste and other sensory features), healthiness, convenience and product categories (e.g. organic or GMO). Caffeine is a major property of coffee that endears many people to its consumption; however, the same property causes avoidance of coffee consumption among would-be consumers because of certain information they are exposed to. However, the work of Kim and Kim (2018) stresses that the prevalence of depression among frequent coffee consumers is 32% lower than non-coffee consumers. Equally, noteworthy is that energy is the leading health reason for coffee because of the positive effects on improved alertness, higher mental and physical performance, i.e. improved body stimulation function and improved mood and emotions (Samoggia and Riedel, 2019; Samoggia et al., 2020). On the contrary, coffee consumption may lead to negative emotions which manifest in terms of worry, off-balance, annoyance, being grouchy, disgruntled and bored (Samoggia et al., 2020). Further studies reveal that coffee consumption has positive effects on liver enzymes, reduction of incidence of dementia and healthy diet (Topik, 2009; Casiglia et al., 1993).

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