"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