"Rooted in Africa, Built for the World"

Two exchanges. Zero African chairs. A $50 billion import bill for the continent that invented the crop.* --- There is a room — two rooms, technically, seven time zones apart — where the price of coffee gets decided every trading day. One sits in lower Manhattan, inside the Intercontinental Exchange. The other sits in London, the descendant of a market born in 17th-century coffee houses that would later spawn the London Stock Exchange itself. Between them, these two rooms set

An Africa Brew Brief Investigation Walk through a market in Harare, Kigali, Kisumu, or Kampala and ask for it by name, and you'll get five different answers. In Zimbabwe it's rapoko. In Zambia, kambale or lupoko. In Kenya, wimbi. In Uganda, bulo. In Ethiopia, dagussa. Nine names, one grain, one enormous missed opportunity. Rapoko is finger millet — *Eleusine coracana* — a small, hardy cereal that has fed and fortified African households for at least five thousand years, since

Africa Brew Brief | Investigative Series | --- SALIMA, MALAWI — On the eastern shore of Lake Malawi, where fishing villages give way to grassland that colonial cartographers once dismissed as marginal, a ten-thousand-square-metre factory hums through six months of frenetic activity each year. Trucks arrive loaded with fruit still warm from the field. Inside, 1,200 hands — four in ten of them women's — wash, peel, slice and dry a harvest that didn't exist as an export commodit

A RIC Brands Africa Agribusiness Intelligence Report *Published by Africa Brew Brief | RIC Brands Research & Intelligence Division* --- THE STATE OF PLAY Africa is the world's fastest-growing consumer market — 1.7 billion people, a combined GDP of $10.8 trillion at purchasing power parity, and a single-market framework in the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) that promises to reshape the global trade order. Yet business operators on the ground still face a daily re

Format: Investor Intelligence | Pillar: CAPITAL, DFIs & INVESTMENT* "The IFC, AfDB, and UKEF collectively committed over $8bn to African agribusiness in the last 5 years. Ask any smallholder in Rwanda or Ghana if they felt it. Most haven't."* --- ## The Gap Between the Billions and the Farm Gate There is a number that gets repeated in every DFI press release, every impact investing summit, every development finance panel in London, Geneva, and Washington DC. The number change

From the Elgin Valley to 60 countries — the CPG story every African agribusiness should study.* --- The Origin: Africa Named It, Africa Made It Named after Africa's savannahs, Savanna Dry cider was introduced in South Africa by the Distell Group in May 1996. [Difford's Guide](https://www.diffordsguide.com/beer-wine-spirits/4523/savanna-dry) It was not a multinational import dressed in African colours. It was conceived, crafted, and commercialised on African soil — a homegrow

A deep dive into the true traditions of growing, roasting, and drinking coffee in the land where it was born — and why that changes everything.* Published by RIC Brands · Africa Brew Brief | Tied to: Origin Cup — Ethiopia Edition | 26 June 2026 · London** --- Prologue: The Cup That Predates Civilisation Every morning, across continents, hundreds of millions of people begin their day with a ritual they understand as modern — a habit of productivity, pleasure, or both. What alm