GG Bekele

Abebe Bekele grows coffee on slopes his grandfather planted, in highlands where the crop stood before anybody thought to farm it, and sells to merchants who come up the road to him rather than the other way round. His elder brother, who works the neighbouring terrace, is the stronger of the two, and the district knows it. The man has been invited to join for nine seasons and will not, on the grounds that he has no wish to play strangers. This gets mentioned at intervals, with an air of quiet grievance he would deny having. The older one is content. It is the younger who takes it personally.