David Robinson of Sweet Unity Farms

David Robinson was born in 1952 to two extraordinary parents, Jackie Robinson who integrated major league baseball and his wife and partner Rachel. David first saw Africa's beauty and potential at age 14 during travels on the continent with his mother. By age 19 after solo travel through 8 African countries including Tanzania, David was committed to a life in Africa for the purpose of enhancing Africa's global integration and the human development he believed would follow.

The first stage of the Sweet Unity Farms dream became a reality in 1989 when David Robinson was given 280 acres of forest land by the Bara village government in the coffee growing Mbeya region of Tanzania. The name Sweet Unity came from the emotion felt at the sight of 5 different tribes engaged in the single task of turning forest into a farm. Unity grew in 1994 as Robinson and family established a cooperative including 47 neighboring farms and continued to grow annually until the cooperative reached 450 members in 2006.

In 2010, Sweet Unity Farms will bring its green coffee beans to market for the seventeenth consecutive year and unity has a global face with a branded gourmet coffee product.