Africa has become a greatly increased tea producing nation in recent decades.  The great majority for export to Europe and North America respectively, produced on large estates, often owned by tea companies from the export markets. Almost all production is of basic mass-market teas, processed by the Crush, Tear, Curl method. Kenya is now the fourth largest global producer next to China and India, and is now the largest exporter of tea to the United Kingdom. Africa is known for a great variety of teas produced in the various regions of the continent, offering a unique and exotic flavor array such as Rooibos, Honeybush, Tanganda and Touareg which provide a collection of tantalizing selections to the world.  In South Africa, the non-Camellia Sinensis world renowned beverage Rooibos is very popular and cherished as a finer tea from the African continent.

Tanganda Tea has its origin in Assam. The first tea bushes planted in Zimbabwe originated from a box of seeds smuggled out of India in the early 19th century by Mrs. Florence Phillips, a tea-planter’s wife from the Assam region of India and the seeds were planted near Chipinge (a town in southeastern Zimbabwe).  Tanganda Tea is the most popular type of tea in Zimbabwe and central Africa.