In 2018, reforms to Ethiopia’s coffee trade created new opportunities for private citizens to participate in the industry. Tariku Edema and his brothers, Wendimu, Demelash, and Anteneh, saw this as an opportunity to build something meaningful, founding Oboleyan Coffee to help improve the lives of coffee-growing families.
Family remains at the heart of the company. Named after the Oromo word for “brother,” Oboleyan reflects the bond between its four founders, whose decades of experience span coffee exportation, post-harvest processing, and warehouse management.
Today, that knowledge guides Oboleyan Coffee’s work in the Guji Zone of Oromia, one of Ethiopia’s most celebrated coffee-growing regions. Through their washing stations, the brothers receive harvests from neighboring farmers and process them with careful attention to quality and the preferences of the global specialty coffee community.
