"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

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