page_title: Café Touba
hierarchical_section_title: Café Touba
caption_attribution_description: English: Adept pouring of steaming Café Touba
context_page_description: Café Touba is a coffee beverage that is a popular traditional drink of Senegal and Guinea-Bissau, and is named for the city of Touba, Senegal.
  Café Touba is a coffee drink that is flavored with grains of Selim or Guinea pepper and sometimes cloves. The addition of djar, imported to Senegal from Côte d'Ivoire or Gabon, is the important factor differentiating café Touba from plain coffee. The spices are mixed and roasted with coffee beans, then ground into a powder. The drink is prepared using a filter, similar to drip coffee.
context_section_description: Café Touba is a coffee beverage that is a popular traditional drink of Senegal and (more recently) Guinea-Bissau, and is named for the city of Touba, Senegal.
  Café Touba is a coffee drink that is flavored with grains of Selim or Guinea pepper (the dried fruit of the shrub Xylopia aethiopica) (locally known as djar, in the Wolof language) and sometimes cloves. The addition of djar, imported to Senegal from Côte d'Ivoire or Gabon, is the important factor differentiating café Touba from plain coffee. The spices are mixed and roasted with coffee beans, then ground into a powder. The drink is prepared using a filter, similar to drip coffee.
caption: Pouring Café Touba
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