Moshi
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Moshi is a Tanzanian city with a population of 144,336 (2002 census). Many residents have banana groves (migombani) and coffee small-holdings (vihamba) on the fertile slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro.
This was where they cultivated the Arabica coffee seeds that Catholic missionaries introduced at the end of the 19th century. Thanks to the government, local authorities, and Catholic and Lutheran missions, Moshi had universal primary education and the highest literacy rate in the vicinity. The Kilimanjaro Native Cooperative Union (KNCU) was probably the most efficient and progressive cooperative organization in Africa.
The district commissioner Sir Charles Dundas, a Scottish baronet, started it in the 1920s to enable Chagga coffee growers to compete on equal terms on world markets with the European growers.de:Moshi