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A free listing for every African-owned business
Barbers, caterers, tailors, accountants, grocers, tutors, hauliers, DJs. If you serve the community, the directory should carry your name — and it costs nothing to be in it, anywhere in the world.
How it works
Four things worth knowing before you submit
The directory is being rebuilt alongside the magazine, so it is open for submissions now and listings will appear here as they are processed. Send yours in — the earlier you are in, the longer readers have to find you.
No fee, ever
There is no listing charge and we take no commission on work you win through the directory. There is no paid tier that puts you above anyone else.
A person reads it
Every submission is read by a human before it goes up, mainly to catch spam and to check that what you have sent is complete enough to be useful.
Anywhere you trade
The continent, the diaspora, or both at once. If you sell to two continents, say so — that is exactly the kind of business readers are looking for.
Change it whenever
New number, new address, closed for good — write to us and we will update or remove the entry. You do not have to explain yourself.
Categories
What belongs in the directory
These are the categories we start with. If your trade is not on the list, submit it anyway and tell us where it belongs — the list is meant to grow.
Barbers, hair & braiding
Shops, mobile braiders, loc technicians and barbers working from a chair at home.
Catering & food
Restaurants, takeaway kitchens, event caterers, bakers and cooks who deliver.
Tailoring & textiles
Seamstresses, tailors, aso-oke and kente traders, alterations, uniform makers.
Groceries & provisions
African and Caribbean grocers, spice and palm-oil sellers, frozen-food suppliers, importers.
Accounting & tax
Bookkeepers, tax preparers and accountants who know what a first-year business return looks like.
Legal & immigration advice
Paralegals, lawyers and consultants. Check the licence: in Canada, immigration consultants must be registered with the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants, and lawyers with their provincial law society. Ask for the number.
Tutoring & language schools
Weekend heritage-language schools, maths and science tutors, exam preparation, music teachers.
Music, DJs & events
DJs, live bands, MCs, photographers, decorators, hall hire and party organisers.
Beauty & skincare
Nails, lashes, skincare, makeup artists and products made for deeper skin tones.
Freight, haulage & removals
Couriers, shipping agents, consolidators, house movers and airport runs.
Housing & property
Realtors, landlords, cleaners, handymen and renovation crews.
Health & wellbeing
Care workers, mental-health practitioners, fitness coaches, traditional practitioners and herbal suppliers.
Add your business
Send us the listing
About three minutes. Fields marked with an asterisk are required; everything else helps readers find you but is optional.
Questions
Before you send the form
If your question is not here, ask us — we would rather answer it once on this page than fifty times by email.
Is it really free?
Yes. No listing fee, no annual renewal, no commission on any work you win because a reader found you here. We do not offer a paid tier that ranks above the free one, because a directory that takes money for position is an advertisement page rather than a directory.
Who can be listed?
Businesses that are owned or run by people of African descent, and businesses that serve African communities — anywhere in the world. It is self-declared: you tell us, and we take you at your word rather than asking for documents nobody should have to send a magazine.
Do you check that a business is genuine?
We check that a submission is complete, coherent and reachable — that there is a real way to contact someone. We do not inspect premises, verify licences or qualifications, or test any service. Treat every listing as a starting point for your own checks, exactly as you would a sign in a shop window.
How long before my listing appears?
Submissions are reviewed and published together at the next update of the directory, rather than one at a time. We will not tell you a fixed number of days and then miss it — if something is holding your listing up, we will write to the address you gave us.
Can I change or remove my listing later?
Yes, and you do not have to justify it. Write to the marketplace desk from the email address on the listing and we will correct it or take it down. See the Terms of Use for how removal works if a listing breaks the rules.
Will you pass my details to anyone else?
No. We do not sell contact details or share them for anyone else's marketing. The details you supply for publication go on the public listing; anything you leave blank stays private. How we handle all of it is set out in the Privacy Policy.
I am not African-owned. Can I still be listed?
If your business genuinely serves African communities — a shop stocking African groceries, a studio teaching African dance — then write and tell us what you do and we will consider it. What we will not do is fill the directory with businesses that simply want the traffic.
Starting out far from home
Credit files that do not transfer, the $30,000 GST threshold, importing without losing your margin, and the savings circles that fund half the businesses on this page.
Read the guide Africanpride RadioSay it on air, free
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