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Mail Order and Online in USA and UK.
Wholesalers and distributors in Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, Fiji, UK and USA.
Local Markets in the USA,UK and Canada.



Information on this page is provided by the companies listed or by their customers. Since I have not visited all the markets myself, I make no claims or recommendations regarding their products or their services. Listings are in alphabetical order.

A name in colored font contains a link to that company's web site.

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Mail Order and Online

Afri Mart
Phone: (510) 776-1916 | fax: (510) 965-1159
This online african, caribbean and ethnic shop reaches out to those who are either too busy or do not have access to any African or Caribbean Market near them. They also carry a variety of British products and are located in the Bay Area, California.

AsiaMex.com
2610 Breezy Point
O'Fallon, Missouri 63366
(636) 272-2746 | fax: (636) 379-9529
This is your source for Asian, Latin America, Middle Eastern, West African and Caribbean groceries. Their website makes it very easy to find what you're looking for. Choose from over 1,286 grocery, gift and pharmacy items from around the world.

Bob's Red Mill
5209 SE International Way
Milwaukie, OR 97222
503-654-3215 | fax: 503-653-1339
Millers, Manufactureres and Purveyors of Whole Grain Natural Foods. They sell specialty flours such as millet and teff.

GreatDryFish.com
GreatDryFish.com - your online source for quality dried and smoked fish products. A large assortment of dried fish products are available for online order, as well as several recipes. Enjoy tasty, healthy, dried fish caught from the fresh water lakes, rivers and ocean. The fish is dried in state-of-the art ovens to crispy dry and smoked with hickory wood for lasting flavor. The process has been perfected to the original taste like it just came from Africa or Asia with exceptional quality. The dried fish is then vacuum-packed to prolong the shelf life and prevent oxidation from moisture, while maintaining the superior flavor.

Kitchen Market
218 Eighth Avenue at 21 St.
New York, NY 10011
(888)468-4433
You can buy dried tropical fruits and whole dried shrimps from this catalog.

Malik Online in the UK
The long established Malik Stores in Bristol now has the largest shop for Afro-Caribbean products on-line for delivery across the British mainland.

Nandos Peri Peri Sauces
1041 W. 18th St., Suite A205
Costa Mesa, CA 92627
1-888-625-2657
Clive@NandosUSA.com
Nando's Original Peri-Peri Pepper Sauces, Grinders, Marinades, Cooking and Grilling Sauces, sold in over 35 countries. Made in South Africa. Kissed by the African Sun. One of South Africa's most successfully exported products. Taunting taste buds since 1987. Award Winners. Free Recipes on line. Just click on the company name above to visit their web site.

Odiega House
Odeiga House Limited
Unit 46 Cariocca Business Park
Helidon Close
Ardwick
Manchester
M12 4AH
+44 (0)161 2736665
Email: odeigahouse@btconnect.com
Odeiga House is a young bustling business with an insatiable appetite for producing full-bodied African and Caribbean cooking sauces and marinades brimming with bold, unflinching flavours.

Rafal Spice Company
2521 Russell
Detroit, Michigan 48207 (313)259-6373
Rafal's sells broken kola nuts, plantain leaves, potato starch, angostura bitters, maggi sauce and marmite.

Ultimate Seasonings
5850 Waterloo Rd Suite 140
Columbia MD 21045
(410) 480-7082 fax:(443) 283-2346
This company is owned by a husband and wife team from Cameroon. Ultimate Seasonings are African spice blends which can be used as a sauce, marinade or condiment. They come in mild, spicy and vegetarian flavors. These products are available in many grocery stores up and down the East coast,and some in the Midwest. You can also order from the web site. Click on their name above to find out more.

Wazobia Foods
Phone: (404) 510-2900
email
Order your African foods at this online store.

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Wholesalers and Distributors



Listings within each country group are in alphabetical order.

Africa / Asia / Australia / Canada / Fiji / United Kingdom / USA

African Wholesalers

Apamax Ventures
P.O BOX 350 Kasoa C/R
+233 244 662588
Wholesale and online suppliers of gari.

BALANCED DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
9b Old Refinery Road, Elelenwo
P.O.Box 8568, Port Harcourt
Email: nemetu@yahoo.com
This is a registered Nigerian wholesaler that specializes in packaging and exportation of African food products with singular objective of making sure that African food is hygienically processed and packaged to everybody all over the world.

Always available are fresh and dried Bitter-leaf, Ogbono, Egusi, Achi, Cray-fish, Ukazi dried leaf, Oporo (smoked shrimps), Bitter Kola nuts, Dadawa cubes, etc. They are capable of exporting any quantity of product you may require and at moderate prices. They also offer personal sales.

Cassava marketers Association of Nigeria
2 Export House 213
Kumba Street Wuse Zone 2
Abuja, Nigeria
3234-08036177493
email
This association in Nigeria is capable of supplying all African food items from Africa at competitive prices. They also carry Nigeria Home CDs, and both new and old films. They can supply African cosmetics, cassava leaves, and any other agricultural products.

Circle Seven Trading
PO Box 1885
Musina
South Africa
0900
Tel / Fax +27 15 530 0219
Cell: +27 82 877 8517 / +27 82 852 5225
This is a South African based company trading in sustainable resources. They are suppliers of Baobab pods, seeds, and pulp and are looking for markets for Southern and East African produce. The collection of the product is done with the local community in an effort to give the rural people some access to income from those things that grow around them.

Grace Bee Ventures Ltd
26 Alhaji Bashiru Street, Ojodu
P.O. Box 9483, Ikeja. Lagos
NIGERIA
Specializing in production, processing and packaging of hygienically-processed African foods, including gaari, raw plantain, raw yam tubers and many different types of flour.

Importers Co-operative, Ltd
P.O.Box 1862
Surulere 33, Ogunmefun Street, Pedro, Gbagada
Lagos, Nigeria
Tel: 134-1-8139377
Cell: 2348033215157
Email: importers_ng@yahoo.com
Worldwide wholesale suppliers for African foods. Items include soup ingredients such as achi, bitter leaf, crayfish, egusi, ogbono, ukazi, smoked shrimp, palm oil, African spices and seasonings. They also carry stock fish, garri, yams and yam flour, nuts (kola, bitter kola, coco nuts, etc), beverages such as Milo and Bournvita, African video films, African weekly and monthly news magazines, newspapers, and native clothing.

Kenni700 International Fisheries
Benin City, Edo State
Nigeria
+2348027265392
kenni700@yahoo.co.uk
Kenni700 International Fisheries is a major distributor of dried crayfish, catfishes,tilapia and basa fish fillets to other businesses. They also have a local fish market, and distribute their own manuactured products to hotels, food houses and restaurants. They are looking for expansion of their business to more distributors and outlets in other states.

Matlabopi Foods
Electron Road No5
Uraniaville
Klerksdorp
North West Province
South Africa
Phone No:+27184693904/2
Fax No: +27184693903
This manufacturer is a maize milling plant and they produce maize meal, the staple food of Africa.

Mensah Alimentari and Farms
Kofi Dei Mensah (owner)
PO Box MC 2660, M / Circle
Takoradi, Ghana
West Africa
MOB.+ 233 277 480 810
FAX. + 233 31 22385
email
alternate email
Exporters of smoked tuna and swordfish, tilapia, vac pack and dried and frozen snail meat, a variety of tropical fruits and vegetables such as palm products, yam, and more! Based in Takoradi, Ghana.

Naik Foods
Km 7 Jos-Rizek Road
Jos,Plateau State, Nigeria
Tel/fax:+234 73 610 296
Mobile : +234 803 9682 682
info@naikfoods.com
The goal of Naik Foods is to reach out to Africans worldwide, with the emphasis on eating healthy and living healthy. They are also reaching out to other races that want to benefit from the rich, nutritious food of Africa. Products include gari (bendel gari,ijebu gari), pounded yam, elubo, cassava flour, pepper soup mix, dry vegetables (bitter leaf,ukazi,utazi,uziza,ugwu), egusi, ogbono, crayfish, prawns, uda, stockfish. The web site also includes some authentic West African recipes. Looking for a recipe for Spicy Goat Head Sauce, or a way to prepare your Bushmeat? This is the place to come.

Quality Ventures Nigeria, Ltd.
25 Aderogba Street, off Grailland Road
Iju Ajuwon
Ogun State
Nigeria
Tel: 234-1-7916213
Mobile Tel:- 234-802-3185748; 234-803-2377240
Fax:- 234-1-2646804
sales@qualityventurescharcoal.com
We export big African Giant Snails to Hotels and Restaurants worldwide. Our major selling points are (1)our timely delivery and (2) our big healthy snails. (Snails are sold from March to July every year during the rainy season)

Queen Lart Company Limited
PO Box AH 177
Achimota, Accra
Ghana, West Africa
223-021-403748
dodzious@yahoo.com
This company manufactures gari on a small scale and is looking for an export partner.

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Asian Wholesalers

De Palm NV
Leiding 10A NR 1
District Wanica
Suriname SA
TEL/FAX: 00597 33 82 00
MBL: 00597 86 56 008
afrifishandfood@msn.com
A fish company specializing in processing seafood the traditional African and Carribean way. They follow the HACCP processing standards. They can ship fish in reefer containers or twice a week by air through Miami. From there by truck to any destination in US or Canada. Products include frozen, smoked or salted fish and some other frozen prepackaged food products. Email them for a complete product list.

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Australian Wholesalers

Solarben International Foods
PO Box 1067
Armadale WA 6112
Phone: 61893905240
Mobile: +61438993631
Fax: +61893905240
solarbenfoods@aol.com
solarbenfoods@yahoo.com.au
Solarben International Foods was established in Perth, Western Australia in May, 2005. We are the sole importer and distributor of "Ayoola brand" of West African food products. We specialise in wholesale, manufacture and distribution of afro-caribbean foods, spices and drinks. Our goal is to make ethnic foods and drinks available to all Africans and Carribeans throughout Australia.
Solarben ....... Bringing You Your Home Foods!!!

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Canadian Wholesalers

North Atlantic Stockfish
Nova Scotia
Phone (508) 496-2443
Gudni Bjornsson is the owner of this supplier of stockfish bits. Freshly caught cod fish are dried in the open air, then cut into convenient serving pieces. This highly nutritious concentrated food can be stored for a long period of time. Stockfish is commonly used in West African soups and stews. For more information send an email to the owner at stockfish@stockfish.ws

TwinStar International Foods Ltd.
8367 Copeland Road
Ottawa, Ontario KOA 1BO
Canada
Tel: 1-613-838-5219
Fax: 1-613-831-8850
twinstarint@rogers.com
Twinstar International Foods Ltd. manufactures and distributes fufu products. Potato fufu is the companys main product. However, custom orders for cassava, cocoyam and plantain fufu are also accepted.

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Fiji Islands

Balthan (Western) Ltd
P.O.Box 1228
SUVA, Fiji
(679) 398 912 913 Fax: (679) 3398 916
gst@connect.com.fj
This company is a long established and leading Fiji Islands grower, processor and exporter to the International market. They carry a range of premium frozen, Afro type products, such as cassava, taro (dasheen), breadfruit, sweet potatoes, and others. They currently export to Australia, New Zealand, West Coast USA, Europe, Japan, and the Sth Pacific Islands. They are looking for a reliable Importer/ Distributor on the US East Coast and Canada.

United Kingdom Wholesalers

Akoma Foods
Unit 16 Brian Clough Business Centre
200-222 Cotton Lane
Derby
DE24 8GJ
United Kingdom
Tel:+44 (0)1332 268 626
Fax:+44 (0)1332 268 627
info@akomafoods.com
Importer, Wholesaler and distributor of African foods based in the East Midlands. We specialise in Ghanaian and Nigerian Foods but also carry foods from other African countries. Akoma foods is a division of Akoma International (UK) Limited.

Divine Tropical Food
184 Marsh Road Leagrave, Luton
Bedfordshire. LU3 2QL
Wholesale /retailer of all African foods and special pre-packed soups such as Stew, Egbono, Okaze, p-soup, Efo etc and more.

MA Quality Foods
23 New Mount Street
Manchester M4 4DE
United Kingdom
Phone: +44[0]1619534015 Mobile: +44[0] 7782260849
enquiry@maqualityfoods.co.uk
We are manufacturers and distributors of African food in United Kingdom. Our brands include Sankofa fufu powder and Lagos agbe pounded yam powder, and more!

Odiega House
Odeiga House Limited
Unit 46 Cariocca Business Park
Helidon Close
Ardwick
Manchester
M12 4AH
+44 (0)161 2736665
Email: odeigahouse@btconnect.com
Odeiga House is a young bustling business with an insatiable appetite for producing full-bodied African and Caribbean cooking sauces and marinades brimming with bold, unflinching flavours.

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United States Wholesalers

AA Biltong
11229 E. Independence Blvd.
Matthews, NC 28105
(704) 849-2660
Wholesalers of South African Beef Biltong and Droewors in the USA

African Tropical Importer
Kansas City, KS, 66101
Phone: (913) 371-0061
email
Wholesalers of all kinds of African, Central American and Carribean foods and merchandise.

African Pacific Imports and Exports
P.O. Box 8104
Mesa, Arizona
(480) 981-0999
This company imports African products to the US, and exports North American products to Africa.

All United Imports, Inc.
9225 S. Blue Island Ave. Unit#107
Chicago, Illinois 60633
(866) 319-4645 Fax: (773) 831-4725
Email:sales@allunitedimports.com
All United Imports, Inc. brings you the very best imported products for delicious tasting Caribbean, Haitian, African, and Mexican foods. Experience real cooking with our imported authentic food ingredients - hundreds of products ready for your table. Our products are supplied by reputable vendors, so you can be assured that you are always getting great quality, price, and service. We carry all of the popular brands such as Ocho Rios, Blue Mountain, Walkerswoods, JCS, Grace. Whether it's from Africa, Jamaica, or from any other country in the Caribbean, you can find it here.

Big River Fish Corp.
14310 State Hwy 100
Pearl, IL 62361
Phone: (217) 829-4004 Fax: (217) 829-4004
fishmart@hughes.net
Products include smoked/dried catfish chunks, catfish rings, Kuta, Azu Asa, Perch, Pike rings, White fish, and Tilipia Wholesale and retail sales. Visa and Mastercard accepted.

Careco LLC, Red Palm Oil Wholesaler
23352 Madero Road #K
Mission Viejo CA 92691
(888) 877-4746 fax: (949) 380-3753
info@goldencoastfoods.com
Golden Coast Foods sells 100% natural and unrefined red palm oil, imported directly from Ghana.

ETS Legrand, LLC
5778 2ND STREET NW
Washington, D.C. 20011
phone: (202) 636-8290 fax: (202) 636-8292
etslegrand@verizon.net
Importers of African foods, including gari, shea butter, palm oil, several types of smoked fish, jute, cassava and sweet potato leaves, and more.

Fountains Food: African/Caribbean Foods
Retail, Wholesale and Distribution Center

19 King Court
New Castle, DE 19720
(302) 221-0418, (302) 392-0457; Fax: (302) 328-2949
Provides warehousing and distribution of products for and on behalf of importers and food processing factories. A modern Smoke House is in the process of commencing processing of smoked fish, chicken, etc. Contact us to fill your company's needs for smoked products.
fountainsfood@yahoo.com

Global Marketing Ent. Inc.
1801 S. Canal St.
Chicago, IL 60616
This company is a direct importer and distributor.

Golden Country Oriental Food
2355 S. Blue Island Avenue
Chicago, IL 60608
Phone: (773) 847-2442, (773) 847-1700 ext. 139
Fax: (773) 847-1717
Importer, Wholesaler and Distributor of African and Caribbean food products in the United States.
Email: gift@goldencountry.com


Manaco Liquid Pepper Inc
P.O.Box 1707
Sugar Land, TX 77487 USA
Phone : (800) 353-1382
Fax: 281-491-2533
We are maker and producer of a Liquid Pepper from Houston TX. This Original and Unique product is homogeneous and Extremely Hot. This is not a sauce or a puree with salt or other preservatives. This is Habanero Pepper Extract and vegetable oil only.

M'Bambi and M'Bambi Tropical Produce Growers Inc.
1142 Crooked Creek Road
Lithonia, GA 30058
mbambi@netscape.com
This company is a wholesaler of frozen ground cassava leaf, amaranthus, roselle, bitter leaf, and african hot pepper. All seeds and planting material are directly from Africa.

Nina International
PO Box 6566
Hyatsville, MD 20789

Novelty Food Wholesale
20 W. Streamwood Blvd
Streamwood, IL 60107
(630) 372-7704 Fax (630) 372-7705
Email: info@iwunzeholdings.com ; sales@iwunzeholdings.com
Novelty Food Wholesale is a specialist and cheapest source of variety and hard to find African food and other products.

Oja Village Market and Travel Int.
3114 Summit Ave.
Greensboro, NC 27405
phone: (336) 358-8260

Prince and Brothers
(413) 739-7214 fax:(413) 739-9368

Quality African Foods, Inc.
73-75 Joseph St.
Newark NJ 07105 (warehouse/office)
(973) 522-1552 FAX:(973) 522-1553

Raymond Hadley Corp.
89 Tompkins St.
Spencer, New York, 14883
(607) 589-4415 (800) 252-5220 fax:(607) 589-6442
This manufacturer/distributer contracts packaging for private labels. They might have packaged up that favorite brand of gari you've been buying! They furnish foods to ethnic groups, institutions, bakeries, distributors and wholesalers. West African foods include fufu mix, bean flour, plantain flour and gari. They also carry Peruvian, Colombian, Salvadorian, Haitian, East Indian, Portugese and other specialty items. Email to info@raymondhadley.com

Regal Brands Fried Plantains
Manufacturers of delicious, juicy, fried plantains, vacuum packed and frozen, ready to microwave and serve in minutes. Generous discounts on your first wholesale order.
Email: fmgi@hotmail.com
404-438-2077

SA Import Company
27601 forbes Rd #19
Laguna Niguel
CA, 92677
(949) 582-9546
sales@saimportcompany.com
Importer and distributer of wholesale South African groceries in the US.

Tyal International
203 Calypso Lane
League City, TX 77573
phone and fax: (281) 334-0718
email
This import company brings in small consignments of Southern African foods, mainly ingredients to compliment South African recipes. The small consignments ensure freshness. Web site under construction. They have been making their own biltong, an air dried meat delicacy for the past 4 years. They use imported ingredients from South Africa. They make the biltong slightly soft, suitable for further air drying (for a day or three) to get it to the exact preferred dryness. The biltong is frozen after coming out of the drying machine, and is shipped in a frozen state; hence shipping must be 2 days max. (If it thaws out it can be refrozen). Shipping is done at cost. Contact Allen or Heather Botha.

White Dove Farm
15821 West Santa Paula St.
Santa Paula, CA 93060
(805) 933-1889
White Dove Farm sells Passion Fruit wholesale direct to residential and business alike. Visit their web site for details and passion fruit recipes.

Zuka Trading and Distribution Company, Inc.
1780H Old Bayshore Hwy
San Jose, CA 95112
(408) 392-0128 Fax: (408) 392-0129
email: zukao@yahoo.com
Distributors of African foods and beauty care products.

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Local Markets



Most major cities throughout the northern hemisphere have at least one grocer selling to a West African population. Check this growing list to see if any of these grocers are in your area. Grocers are listed by state in alphabetical order. Click on an underlined name to go to the web site for a store. Sometimes you can order online even if the store is not local.

UK and Canada / USA

British Markets

Friends
22 Plumstead Road
Woolwich
London
SE18 7BZ
Telephone: 0208 309 8202
Fax: 0208 854 7279
Mobile: 07943 47456
This is a family run shop which sells all kinds of West African food, especially Nigerian, Ghanian and Cameroonian. Some of their products are Ugo, scented leaf, bitter leaf and other vegetables, with a choice of fresh, frozen or dried. They also sell Nigerian and Ghanaian Milo, Nido, Peak, Indomie noodles, akam, custard, bournvita, and tolly boy rice.

D4 FOODS
Woolwich Market
Beresford Square
London SE18
or...
69 Austen Close
Thamesmead
London
SE28 8AY
E-mail:d4foods@hotmail.com
Specialises in wholesale and retail african raw foods, like gari, ijebu, elubo, palm oil, snails, agbo for different ailments, obi, orogbo, ogi and others.

Savannah-African Food Stores Ltd.
17 Church Road
Lawrence Hill, Redfield, Bristol
BS5 9JJ
07776324388 / 07950584569
A new African foods retail shop, the first in Bristol, selling all West, East and South African foods.

Zambezi Foods
Birmingham Store: Limpopo Foods, Birmingham, Great Britain
Phone: 0121 434 5253
Luton Store: Zambezi Foods, 76 Hightown Road, Luton, LU2 0BW, Great Britain
Phone: 01528 419 284
email
Zambezi Foods is Britains leading household name for Southern African soul food, beverages and memorilibia. Through consistently valuing our customers needs and demands we are now online delivering Africa`s finest foods straight to your doorstep.

Canadian Markets

Meals on the Go by MJ's BBQ and Suya MJ'S BBQ & Suya
361 Parkhurst Square, Unit 5
(Airport Road/Steeles Intersection)
Brampton, Ontario, Canada L6T 0C2
(905) 494-1003
This is actually a restaurant that comes highly recommended by patrons. The Suya menu is made with authentic spice from home land. MJ's also sells "Meals on the Go", pre-packed frozen containers that takes less than 4-6 minutes to warm up. These come in three delicious West African flavours: Pepper Soup, Spinach with or without Egusi, and Ogbono (Apon) Stew.

Eat-Sum-More, Inc
7700 Bathurst Street, Unit #6
Thornhill, Ontario
L4J 7Y3
email
Located in Toronto, Canada, we are ex South Africans who help other ex South Africans who have a craving for their favourite South African foods fulfill their cravings.

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Click on your State to find markets in your area. Listings are in alphabetical order.


Alabama Arizona California Connecticut Georgia Illinois
Kansas Kentucky Maryland Massachusetts Missouri New Hampshire
New Jersey New York North Carolina North Dakota Oklahoma Oregon
Pennsylvania Tennessee Texas Washington Washington DC

Alabama

Africanese LLC
226 18th Street North
Birmingham, AL 35203
(205) 324-7880

Choi's Oriental Food and Gifts
402 Jordan Lane
Huntsville, AL 35805
(256) 533-9118
A good selection of West African foods, including stock fish and bitter leaf.

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Arizona

Ako International Market
1400 S. McClintock Dr. Ste.14
Tempe, AZ, USA
(480) 317-9000
We sell lots of african groceries, authentic clothing, arts + crafts, black cosmetics and beauty care, pre-paid phone cards,african movies on vhs, dvd and vcd,african music cd's. Including the following; kenkey(dokono), yams, fufu flour, rice flour, corndough, cassava dough, stockfish, fried fish, smoked fish, semolina, farina, maggi cube, spices, shito(black pepper sauce), plantains, palmoil, egusi, ogbono, ukazi, plantain chips, frozen snails, gari, dry shrimp, crayflish, ginger beer, malta, shea butter, dermovate, lemovate, black soap, mercy cream, wigs and Auntie Lizzie hair extensions.

Top Choice African Market
6220 North 43rd Avenue
Glendale, AZ 85301
(623) 934-3055
We are Importers, distributors and Manufacturers representatives of African foods and products. We carry a wide variety of authentic African and global products including cosmetics. Our complete line of African foods, ingredients and health/beauty products including Yam, Palm Oil , Gari (Cassava Granules), Stockfish, Shrimps, Crayfish, Smoked fish, Egusi, Fufu Flours, Plantain/Cassava/Yam Flours, Palm nut Concentrate, African Beans, Dermovate, IKB, Fashion Fair and much more. Wholesale and Retail Available. You Can Shop online @ www.topchoicefoods.com. Mail and Phone Orders welcomed. Our hours of operations are Monday-Friday 11:00am to 7:00pm and Saturday 10:00am to 8:00pm MST. Please feel free to tell us what you need if we do not carry it.

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California

African Hut
27601 Forbes Rd. Suite 20
Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
(949)582-9546 Fax (949)582-5616
email
African Hut sells Southern African foods including beers, beverages, cereals, samosas, jams, wines and sweets. You can order online.

Brookside Grocery (Afrimart)
2085 23rd Street
San Pablo California 94606
(510)776-1916
This is an ethnic shop selling African and Caribbean foods.

We Yone Foods Convenience Market
251 E. Baseline Road
Rialto, Ca 92376
(909) 879-0242
Specialize in all African, Caribbean and Central American foods. Come find us-we'll find whatever you are looking for.

Yinkus African and Caribbean Market
869 E. Washington Blvd
Pasadena, CA 91107
(626) 798-5212
This market run by a Liberian woman offers many selections of African foods.

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Connecticut

Accra Market
487 Burnside Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06108
(860) 528-8886
All sorts of African foods, beauty products and general items are available here. Click on their name above to check out their new online store!


Kristodia Market
1224 Campbell Avenue
West Haven, CT 06516
This beautiful, well organised, well stocked African/Caribbean Market comes recommended by a patron.

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Georgia

Sheba Foods
3420D East Ponce De Leon Ave.
(770) 982-1000
Sheba Foods is the first and only company with ready to eat African cuisine in major supermarkets, for example, Wal Mart and Whole Foods Market. Visit their gourmet store at the Georgia location listed above.

Illinois

Aboasa International Market
221 South Green Bay Road
Waukegan, IL 60085
Phone: (888)205-4868 OR (847)596-2032
Fax: (847)599-1632
Aboasa International Market offers various grocery products, clothing, art and craft from the continent of Africa not commonly found in the U.S.A. We pride ourself in providing good quality products and services to our customers in the continental United States and around the world.

Chika International Food Market
522 E Boughton Rd
Bolingbrook, IL 60440
Phone: 630-739-7799
The store is well stocked with a variety of African food products and hard to find African Cosmetics. It has the largest line of Ghana products in Chicago. Also does money transfer to most African countries including Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory coast and Sierra Leone.
Hours:Monday: 5pm-8pm, Tuesday to Friday: 10am to 8pm, Saturday: 10am to 7pm, Sunday: 11am to 5pm

Flo Tropical Foods
1652 Sibley Blvd.
Calumet City, IL 60409
708-730-1070
flotropical@aol.com

La Fruteria, Inc.
8909 S. Commercial Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60617
(773) 768-4969 Fax: (773) 768-0734
Email: sales@lafruteria.net
La Fruteria brings you the very best imported products for delicious tasting Caribbean, African, and Mexican foods. Experience real cooking with our imported authentic food ingredients-hundreds of products ready for your table.

Novelty Grocery
20 W Streamwood Blvd.
Streamwood, IL 60107
(630) 372-7704
sales@iwunzeholdings.com
Novelty is a specialized grocery store that sells African and Caribbean food and other products.

Old World Market
5129 N. Broadway
Chicago, IL 60640
(773) 989-4440
Specializing in fresh, frozen, canned and dry West African and Carribean foods.

Riteprice African Food Market
2227 West Schaumburg road
Schaumburg, IL. 60194
Phone: (847)352-4951
riteprice@talkamerica.net
Serving African descendants in the heart of the northwest suburb of Chicago. They offer all types of African foods, both in retail and wholesales prices.

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Kansas

African Tropical Market
901 N 7th Street
Kansas City, KS 66101
913-371-0061
This market is owned by Paul Abanishe, a Nigerian. Mr. Abanishe carries a large selection of East, Central and West African foods. He is fluent in Spanish and carries many Central and South American and Caribbean products. Mail orders shipped within 48 hours. Mr. Abanishe has been serving the Kansas City area since 1998.

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Kentucky

ValuMarket Iroquois
5301 Mitscher Ave
Louisville, Kentucky 40214
phone:(502)361-9285
fax:(502)367-8552
email
This is an international grocery store with over 200 authentic West African products.

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Maryland

Cape Dutch Bakery
710 Accokeek Road
Accokeek, MD 20607
phone: (301) 203-7990
fax: (301) 203-7995, email
This mouthwatering site invites you to tempt your tastebuds with all sorts of South African cakes, pastries, pasties and meats. They also carry British and South African grocery items. Online or phone orders accepted.

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Massachusetts

Albino Fruit Market
92 Belmont St.
Worcester, MA 01605
(508) 753-9280
Albino's sells all sorts of African foods from palm oil to agbono, kenkey to sweet bread. Their selection is always different depending on the stock.

Tropical Foods
2101 Washington St.
Roxbury, MA 02119
(617) 442-7439
This large market in Boston sells Caribbean, Spanish, West Indian and a number of African products. Here you can get your gari and egusi and do the rest of your weekly shopping as well. They carry palm oil, meats, fresh tropical produce, cosmetics and more. They plan to do online sales in their upcoming web site.

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Missouri

African Depot
9944 West Florissant Ave (near the corner of Chambers Rd and W. Florissant)
St Louis MO 63136-1432
phone: (314) 868-9555 fax: (314) 867-2330
cell (314) 249-3176
Best source for African food items, art and clothing

Global Foods Market
Fine Imported Products from Around the World
421 N. Kirkwood Rd.
Kirkwood, MO 63122
Phone: (314) 835-1112 Fax: (314) 835-1113
This shop is open 7 days a week. It offers a good variety of international foods organized by country, with each section marked by that country's flag. Reports say this store is superclean and an exciting place to shop. It includes an American section.

Jay International Food Co.
3172 S. Grand Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63118
Retail: (314)772-2552 Wholesale: (314)772-9393
This market is an excellent source of several kinds of West African and other exotic foods.

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New Hampshire

Tropical Markets
58 Chestnut Street
Nashua, New Hampshire 03060
(603) 880-0270
This Spanish grocery carries many tropical foods such as yams, plantains, fruits, all sorts of dried peppers, dried shrimp, frozen tropical fruit purees, frozen yams (peeled and cut in chunks), banana leaves, and more.

Spanish and American Grocery Store
50 Whitney Street
Nashua, NH 03064
(603) 881-9531
Some of the tropical foods you'll find in this Spanish store are yams, plantains, chorizo, guava paste wrapped in banana leaves, and canned whole guavas in syrup.

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New Jersey

Ade International African Market
590 Central Ave
East Orange, NJ 07018
(973)674-3031 Fax: (973)674-2653
Herbs, medicine, food products, clothes, jewelry, shea butter, black soap, haitian products, religious articles and outfits, catering. They have some great Nigerian palm juice!

Calabash
45 Edison Place
Newark, NJ 07102
(973) 643-7828 You can get just about any West African foods from this shop, including daddawa!

Makola African Market Imports
375 Lyons Ave. (Exeter Plaza)
Newark, NJ 07112
(973)926-3919 fax:(973)926-2520

U Save International foods, The African Market
266 George Street
New Brunswick, NJ
You can buy your egusi, stockfish and bitter leaves here, for a propa African meal that will make you remember your Mma's cooking.

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New York

African Heritage Foods
D.B.A. Country Cottage Savories
PO Box 497
Jefferson Valley, NY 10535
(914) 228-1584

African Market and Resto
International Exotic Products Inc.
172-20 Jamaica Ave.
Jamaica, NY 11432
Phone: (718) 523-1057
email
Juliette is a whole saler and retailer of Africa Food products, European cosmetics, African cloths, cassettes, Nigeria and Togo movies and comedies, and finger licking African Cuisine, where you can eat any African food.

Almacenes Shango
661 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10029
(212) 722-4275

Osa Adolor African Market
774 Lenox Road
Brooklyn, NY 11203
(718) 363-2148
Osa Adolor sells authentic African food supplies and ingredients, such as stock fish, cray fish, gari, ogbono, yam, kola nuts, bitter leaves, palm oil and more. They also sell African artwork, materal and clothing.

Safari Food Market
1296 Broadway
Buffalo, New York 14212
1-866-846-0661 toll-free, or 716-896-4009 in Western New York
From the owner: Safari Food Market is a full-service African grocery store serving the food needs of Africans in and around Buffalo, New York and via the Internet to customers nationwide. Our line of products include stockfish, gari, semolina, palm oil, pounded yam, palm butter (cream), koobi, cassava flour, fresh fufu, banku, and many other indigenous African foods and spices. Through our website we place the whole store at your finger tips! Browse our website where ever you are in North America and place your order using any major credit card. For quicker service, call toll free 1-866-846-0661 during store hours; Monday-Friday 11:00am to 7:00pm and Saturday 10:00am to 8:00pm EST. Please feel free to tell us what you need if we do not carry it. Thank you for your patronage!

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North Carolina

Eki African and Caribbean Market
1705 Ramsey St
Fayetteville, NC 28301
(910) 484-4278
Health and beauty products, Nigerian movies and music and an outstanding selection of African food.

Sankofa International Market, Inc.
3209 Yanceyville Street
Greensboro, NC 27405
(336) 375-4111 Fax: (336) 375-6699
Email: Mariagbie@aol.com
This local market carries African and Caribbean food, arts and crafts.

The South African Food Shop
11229 East Independence Blvd.
Matthews, NC 28105, USA
(704) 849-2660
Retailers of traditional South African foods and grocery products in the USA.

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North Dakota

African Market
1230 23rd St.
Fargo, ND 58103
(701) 298-7909
e-mail: noahkpena@yahoo.com
Products include bottled red palm oil, powdered yams, and REAL fresh yams from Ghana.

Oklahoma

R.K. Supermarket, Inc.
2328 N. MacArthur
Oklahoma City, OK 73127
Phone: (405) 946-1996 Fax: (405) 942-6916
This African market sells wholesale and retail products.



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Oregon

African Food Market
1910 N Killingsworth St
Portland, OR 97217-4437
(503) 283-8585

Pennsylvania

ACI Market
79 North Progress Avenue
Harrisburg, PA 17109
(717)540-1449 Fax: (717)540-1688
This market sells african foods and meats, clothings and treasures. They also help convert video to either ntsc or pal, and sell african movies.

The African Market
121 ½ E. Beaver Ave
State College PA 16801
(814) 238-1938
Newly opened in November 2007, this market carries african groceries, fair trade art & decor, fabrics and movie rentals.

International Market
328 S. Allen Street
State College, PA 16801
(814)238-7679
This Chinese market run by Clara Wang has a little African corner where you can find foods such as dried fish, palm oil, egusi or ground pepper.

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Tennessee

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Texas

Austin International Market
502 Pampa Drive
Austin, Texas 78752
512-453-5487
Supplies food mostly from Africa. Has fresh Kola Nuts almost all the time. Proprietor is from Nigeria. Directions: Pampa Drive is located just off Airport drive. From hwy 183 go south on Lamar. Take a right onto airport just before you get to the rail crossing. Pampa intersects airport from the left, just before a car dealership, and about 2 to 3 streets down. If you get to a shopping center on the left that has some oriental type shops you have gone about a block to far.

Classic Taste Harrisa
Trade Mart Kitchen
2100 North Stemmons Freeway
Dallas, TX 75207
(800) 553-3784

Feista Mart
This large grocery chain sells palm oil, guavas, yams, plantains and other tropical foods.

Indo-European Market
Intersection of Park Row and Cooper in South Arlington
Lebanese and Indian foods, tropical fruits and vegetables.

Hong Kong Market
Visit them in Dallas or Arlington!
1816 East Pioneer Parkway
Arlington, TX 76010
(817)265-1488 Fax: (817)459-2345

9780 Walnut St. Suite 360
Dallas, TX. 75243
(972)437-9888 Fax: (972)231-9818

This Oriental market has an aisle dedicated to African foods. You can find egusi, bitter leaves, yams, tropical fruits, cassava, pounded yam mix and drinks.

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Washington

Buck's Fifth Avenue
Olympia, Washington 98501
360-352-9301 (Please leave message slowly.)
This market carries all nationalities of spices, ethnic cooking tools etc. Open since 1973, they will find and sell every imaginable spice.

J and B African Market
10327-3rd Ave S.
Seattle, WA 98168
Phone: (206) 915-5178 Fax: (775) 361-4565
E-mail: jamesp2.wa@netzero.net
This market sells all kinds of West African foods, as well as music, videos, cosmetics and miscellaneous items. You can order online! Click on their name above to visit their web page.

Oriental Market
3919 E. Trent
Spokane, WA 99202
phone: (509) 535-3936
Afro/Caribbean foods, as well as Asian, Indian and Mediterranean groceries and sundries.

Valley Harvest International Market (3 locations)
23636 104th Ave. S.
Kent, WA 98031
Phone: (253) 856-9117

28855 Military Rd. S.
Federal Way, WA 98003
Phone: (253) 839-4570

9820 Pacific Ave. S.
Tacoma, WA 98444
Phone: (253) 537-1107

These markets specialize in fresh produce and ethnic foods of all types. They have been in business for nearly 25 years serving the many different ethnic people in the area. They have recently begun selling African and Jamaican products.

Washington DC

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