Author: Björn

Fair Trade Week? – Fair Trade Weak!

It’s ‘Fair Trade week’ in Belgium… We are not participating. To be clear: I have a soft spot for fair trade. In the 1990s I worked in a fair trade shop in Aachen (Weltladen, Jakobstrasse). I loved the idea. Connect consumers here with producers there, pay a fairer price, make trade more human. Pure and […]

Heartbreak & Hope

A Journey of Resilience, Cacao, and the Shy Okapi When we started making chocolate in 2016, our vision was clear: Our African bar needed to be represented by the Democratic Republic of Congo. Not Ivory Coast, Ghana, or Madagascar, but Congo. Belgium and Congo share a long and dark history. For us, it felt important […]