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Music Clip
Lyrics
Translation
Global New Generation, 2021
C.A.F.F.E.E., the whole world is drinking café
Verse 1
In Ethiopia, on an ordinary day,
a goat stood before a bush and wondered:
I wonder if this red berry tastes bitter?
Coffee was discovered in 850 AD!
Suddenly all hell broke loose among the goats.
The shepherds were all upset, they just wondered!
They were awake all night, they couldn’t sleep.
What did they eat? Where did it come from?
“Now I know, I know what happened!
Because I know exactly what my goat eats.
Those red berries, there the seeds in the poop,
“My goat eats them and gets a quirk.”
A cry: “Oha!” Trembling, the goat fell down,
“Omg, everyone went silent!
“Is she dead?” someone asks, she jumps up again,
Bleating hysterically, What’s she like?
Chorus
CAFFEE, whole world is drinking coffee.
A goat has discovered coffee,
She must have liked the red berries.
Hey goat, thank you!
How will it go on?
Verse 2
The shepherds told what had happened.
The monks nodded their heads: “Yes, that’s strange!”
They tasted the berries, spat bitterly into the embers.
And then came this fragrance, it suddenly smelled good!
They withdrew, pondered on a bench.
Roasted beans they cooked into a potion.
Then they were wide awake, prayed all night.
The coffee, made their prayer famous!
Sold, bought, of course also given away,
by 1600 A.D. it was known in Arabia.
The coffee moved to Mecca, then came to Cairo,
They loved it in Constantinople too!
Ottoman siege of Vienna, for the second time already!
500 sacks of coffee were left behind when they fled.
The coffee went on to Paris, London and Berlin,
Everywhere in Europe, they drank it!
Chorus
CAFFEE, whole world is drinking coffee.
A goat discovered the coffee
She must have liked the red berries.
Hey goat, thank you!
How will it go on?
Verse 3
The coffee tree, is a tropical plant,
that grows in countries with a humid climate.
Coffee from the tropics supplies the whole world.
The farmers work hard for far too little money
For the little tree does not bear flowers until the third year.
After five years, only the coffee cherries are there!
Three trees full of beans, picked by hand,
for a packet of coffee weighing 500 grams.
Shipped, roasted, also sold in Germany,
where a person nowadays consumes 6 kg a year.
For 6 kg of coffee, 4 euros a piece,
36 coffee trees are harvested.
Coffee from the tropics supplies the whole world.
The farmers work hard for far too little money.
Are you thinking about who can change that?
Think when you buy, start with yourself!
Chorus
CAFFEE, whole world is drinking coffee.
A goat has discovered coffee
The red berries must have pleased her.
Hey goat, thank you!
What will happen next?
Coffee beans
Discovery of coffee
The Arabica coffee plant originates from the southwest of Ethiopia and a small area in what is now Sudan.
There, the animals were mysteriously very active in the evening and could not be calmed down.
According to the story, the effect was discovered by a shepherd when he saw how his goats became hyper after eating the plant.
The plant
How Does Coffee Grow?
The coffee plant loves warm and humid weather.
It grows best at around 20 degrees Celsius and when the air is nice and moist.
You should water it with soft water – that means water with very little lime.
A little splash of lemon juice helps too, because the plant likes acidic soil.
But you need to be very patient:
The coffee plant takes about four years to grow its first flowers!
And then it needs another 6 to 7 months before the coffee fruits are ripe.
There are two main ways to harvest coffee:
Picking method: People pick only the ripe coffee cherries, one by one, by hand.
It takes a long time, but the coffee is really good.Stripping method: Farmers wait until many fruits are ripe.
Then a machine goes through the plants and pulls everything off – even the unripe ones.
When it’s warm enough outside, you can put the coffee plant outdoors.
But don’t forget to give it plenty of soft water!
Processing & Roasting
Ethiopia is the birthplace of coffee.
From there, the special Arabica beans are sent all around the world. Even though people in Ethiopia have been roasting coffee for a very long time, most of the beans are still shipped while they are raw (green).
The roasting usually happens in the countries where the coffee is sold – for example, in Germany. There, the beans are washed and then roasted in big machines at 90 to 150 degrees Celsius. Depending on the type of coffee, the roasting can take between 10 and 45 minutes.
To travel such a long way from Africa to Europe, coffee beans are mostly transported by cargo ships. About 80% of all the coffee in the world is moved this way. The beans are packed into big jute sacks to survive the long sea journey.
But there is a problem:
One single cargo ship uses about 200 tons of heavy fuel oil per day! The 20 biggest ships in the world produce as much sulfur pollution
as all the cars on Earth combined!
Burning this dirty fuel also creates a lot of CO2, which is bad for the climate and the planet.
Who sells the coffee?
In the capital of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, women work very hard in the coffee factory called Mamokacha. They sort the coffee beans for 12 hours a day,
taking out the bad beans.
But they only earn one dollar a day. Even in Ethiopia, one of the poorest countries in the world, this is a very low wage, almost not enough to live on.
To help feed their whole family, children also have to work.
In Ethiopia, people get about 50 cents for one kilo of coffee, but in German stores, the same coffee sells for eight euros per kilo!
To fill one sack of raw coffee, about 100 coffee trees are needed! Each tree only produces about half a kilo to one kilo of beans per year.
This makes the work even harder.
How does climate change affect coffee?
Because there is less rain sometimes, some types of coffee plants are in danger.
Coffee plants need a place where it’s not too hot and where there is enough moisture so the coffee cherries can grow well.
If it gets too hot, fungi can grow on the coffee cherries, because the cherries are very sensitive.
But drinking a lot of coffee can also hurt nature. For example, birds lose their homes because coffee farms need a lot of sunlight, and that means many trees get cut down.
Coffee filters are usually biodegradable – they break down naturally. But coffee capsules, which many people use in Germany, are different.
They are mostly made of aluminum, and can only be recycled if people throw them in the yellow recycling bins.
Tips for environmentally conscious coffee consumption:
- do without capsules
- Only make as much coffee as you consume.
- freeze the rest in ice cubes and use it as an iced coffee or smoothie
Here is a quiz on the subject of coffee
Source information
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For parents
You’ve just picked up your child, maybe you’re on your way to the playground, and suddenly your child starts humming. Fervently and completely innocently, he sings the songs he learned at nursery and/or school. Songs that you too may have sung as a child. But now you have an educational mission and are amazed, perhaps sad, angry, triggered by the discriminatory words that spill from your child’s lips.
You soon realise that there is a greater power at play and you cannot banish these songs from your child’s environment.
So you start changing the lyrics a bit…..
That’s how it was for us. Since we also know that we can’t achieve that much on our own, we turned it into a project.
In the project “Who the heck is Columbus?” we reworked 5 children’s songs from a colonial-critical perspective and retold the stories. The participating children sang on self-made beats with the support of parents, educators, artists and interns and even filmed three of the songs together.
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