What does Kanfuela mean?

KAN·FUE·LA: COF·FEE

Kanfuela means coffee in Tshiluba - a Bantu language spoken in the Western Kasai and Kasaï Oriental provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo where Deborah’s family comes from. She comes from a family of coffee farming and agriculture- dating back generations.

Deborah’s paternal grandparents owned a large farm along the Lubilanji river (also known as Sankuru) in the town of Kamweka (Ville de Kananga)—in the southern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kasaï ). Coffee was among the top crops her grandfather harvested. It was common for the children (as young as the age of two) & adults to pair up their bread with coffee for breakfast—not milk! (The land still belongs to her family, but is currently not harvesting any crops.)