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The Kaffa (also called Kefecho) are primarily agricultural people living in southwestern Ethiopia. Their land is primarily mountainous, with many rivers and a rich source of coffee, musk, honey and a wide variety of agricultural and forest products. Traditional Kaffa society was divided into five major social classes consisting of the royalty, the nobility, commoners, occupational castes, and slaves. Relations between these classes varied in rigidity through time, but each class was traditionally associated with a particular subgroup locally called a clan.

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Kafa

In the dominions of the Divine Emperor

The Kingdom of Kafa

Dialectics of divine 'kingship' in the Kafa highlands

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Author	Title	Publication Date
Adem, Teferi Abate	Culture Summary	2012
Gezahegn Petros	Kafa	2001
Grühl, Max, b. 1884	In the dominions of the Divine Emperor	1977
Huntingford, George Wynn Brereton	The Kingdom of Kafa	1955
Lange, Werner J.	Kafa	1982
Lange, Werner J.	Dialectics of divine 'kingship' in the Kafa highlands	1976

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