Children's book is artist's gift to Ethiopia and his adopted home

BettyUdesen / THE SEATTLE TIMES

People around the world drink 400 billion cups of coffee a year, and it's a good bet most of them don't think about Ethiopia while they're opening their eyes.

If they thought about the origins of their coffee at all, they'd think about Brazil or maybe Colombia.

But Sultan Mohamed, 42, an artist and a teacher at Asa Mercer Middle School, grew up in Ethiopia hearing about the boy who centuries ago discovered coffee when one of his goats nibbled on the beans of an unfamiliar plant.

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