One of the most important things in the world was invented in Africa. It was the mother of all invention.            Coffee!!! Coffee wasn't really invented in Africa, it just grew there naturally. The first people to actually take coffee beans and brew them were Arabians according to this ...      Coffee use can be traced at least to as early as the 9th century, when it appeared in the  highlands of Ethiopia . [1]  According to legend, Ethiopian  shepherds  were the first to observe the influence of the  caffeine  in coffee beans when the goats appeared to dance and to have an increased level of energy after consuming wild coffee berries. [12]  The legend names the shepherd Kaldi. From Ethiopia, coffee spread to  Egypt  and  Yemen . [13]  It was in Arabia that coffee beans were first roasted and brewed similarly as they are today. By the 15th century, it had reached the rest of the Middle East,  Persia ,  Turkey , and  northern Africa .     But now this is from the niggapedia which I am always skeptical of anything I read on there. But unlike the BS fried chicken article:rolleyes:(fried chicken is of Scottish origins not African). This one actually has references, sounds about right to me.