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Inspiration • Fouad Mhadji Issa was inspired by the Grand Island coffee scene to add coffee to the list of products offered by his business, Koponi Vanilla. Josh Salmon for the Flatwater Free Press
Fouad Mhadji Issa looks to his adopted home of Nebraska when searching for a comparison to describe the role of vanilla in his home country of Comoros.
"Vanilla is farmed widely in Comoros," he says, "like corn is in Nebraska."
The marriage of those two disparate places lies at the heart of Issa's business, Koponi Vanilla. The company launched in Grand Island four years ago selling vanilla extract and has since expanded to sell coffee, syrups and body oils - all of it infused with vanilla sourced from Comoros, an island nation off Africa's southeast coast.
The business has gradually built a fo...
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