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What we source

Seven categories, each with its own season, its own trading unit and its own documentation. Open one to see the products inside it, when they ship, and what a supplier will ask you to specify.

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Grains and seeds

Grains and seeds

Sesame, soybeans, groundnuts, beans, millet and sorghum, harvested from October and traded by container load.

21 products listed

  • Sesame seed
  • Soybeans
  • Groundnuts
  • Beans
  • Millet
  • Sorghum
  • Fonio
  • African rice
  • Teff
  • African yam bean
  • Egusi
  • White maize
  • Yellow maize
  • Wheat
  • Honey beans
  • Brown beans
  • White beans
  • Black beans
  • Pigeon pea
  • Ofada rice
  • Acha
Spices and botanicals

Spices and botanicals

Ginger, turmeric, chilli, hibiscus and moringa, dried at origin and shipped through the year.

16 products listed

  • Ginger
  • Turmeric
  • Chilli
  • Hibiscus
  • Moringa
  • Alligator pepper
  • Uda
  • Ehuru
  • Uziza seed
  • Locust bean
  • Aidan fruit
  • Dried pepper
  • Thyme
  • Curry leaf
  • Garlic
  • Cloves
Nuts and superfoods

Nuts and superfoods

Cashew, tiger nuts, shea nuts and bambara nuts, traded on grade and outturn.

12 products listed

  • Cashew nuts
  • Tiger nuts
  • Shea nuts
  • Bambara nuts
  • Ogbono
  • Kola nut and bitter kola
  • African walnut
  • Ugba
  • Coconut
  • Dates
  • Yellow tiger nut
  • Brown tiger nut
Cocoa and natural ingredients

Cocoa and natural ingredients

Main crop cocoa beans from the Gulf of Guinea, plus locally processed powder and butter.

3 products listed

  • Cocoa beans
  • Cocoa powder
  • Cocoa butter
Oils

Oils

Palm, palm kernel, sesame and groundnut oil, available through the year.

4 products listed

  • Palm oil
  • African palm kernel oil
  • Sesame oil
  • Groundnut oil
Roots and processed foods

Roots and processed foods

Garri, cassava flour and chips, yam and yam flour, plantain flour and potato.

22 products listed

  • Garri
  • Cassava flour
  • Yam
  • Yam flour
  • Plantain flour
  • Potato
  • Cassava
  • Sweet potato
  • Cocoyam
  • Fluted pumpkin seed
  • White garri
  • Yellow garri
  • Red garri
  • Pounded yam flour
  • Semolina
  • Tapioca
  • Fufu flour
  • Ogi
  • Cocoyam flour
  • Chin chin
  • Plantain chips
  • Kuli kuli
Fresh vegetables and leaves

Fresh vegetables and leaves

Ugu, bitterleaf, okra and garden egg, air freighted fresh or shipped dried and frozen.

20 products listed

  • Fluted pumpkin leaves
  • Bitterleaf
  • Okra
  • Garden egg
  • Tomatoes
  • Onions
  • Scotch bonnet
  • Cayenne pepper
  • Red bell pepper
  • Waterleaf
  • Ewedu
  • Utazi
  • Uziza leaf
  • Okazi
  • Oha leaf
  • Scent leaf
  • African spinach
  • Lagos spinach
  • Cassava leaves
  • Moringa leaves
Fresh fruit

Fresh fruit

Agbalumo, ube, avocado and citrus, moving by air for the short lived crops and by reefer for the rest.

19 products listed

  • African star apple
  • African pear
  • Avocado
  • Citrus
  • Mango
  • Pineapple
  • Plantain
  • Banana
  • Pawpaw
  • Guava
  • Soursop
  • Watermelon
  • Velvet tamarind
  • Tamarind
  • Baobab fruit
  • African breadfruit
  • Passion fruit
  • Lime
  • Coconut water
Seafood and animal products

Seafood and animal products

Dried and smoked fish, prawns, honey, beeswax and hides and skins.

12 products listed

  • Dried fish
  • Smoked fish
  • Prawns
  • Honey
  • Beeswax
  • Hides and skins
  • Crayfish
  • Stockfish
  • Dried catfish
  • Bonga fish
  • Periwinkle
  • Snail

Looking for something not listed here? The categories above are where we are opening, not the limit of what we can reach. Tell us what you need and we will say honestly whether we can source it.

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