Free UK delivery on recipe boxes over £45 · Travel through Africa, one meal at a time

// Our story

Food is the truest passport.

The African Cart began with a question — how do you bring a whole continent into someone's kitchen? This is what we found out.

// Our story

"We don't sell recipe boxes. We sell memories you cook together — pieces of Africa, plated for your table."

— The African Cart team

// What we believe

Three things guide every box.

Discovery

Every box opens a door — to a country, a cook, a story you didn't know you needed.

Connection

We build relationships with cooperatives and small producers across the continent — not transactions.

Storytelling

Every dish carries a story. We make sure that story makes it to your table, intact.

// Founder's note

From a Lagos kitchen to your table.

I grew up between Lagos and London, with two pantries and two ways of seasoning a pot of rice. The African Cart is the bridge I always wished existed — a way for anyone, anywhere, to taste a meal that someone's grandmother would recognise.

We work with cooks across the continent — sourcing spices in cooperatives, recording recipes in family kitchens, capturing the cultural details a packet on a supermarket shelf could never hold. Every box you open carries those hands.

// From source to table

Every ingredient has a name behind it.

01

Source

We work with farmers and cooperatives across 12 countries.

02

Blend

Spices are roasted and milled in small batches in our kitchen.

03

Story

We record the recipes and stories with the people who live them.

04

Ship

Boxes are packed by hand and shipped carbon-offset, worldwide.

Ready to travel with us?

Pick your country, open the box, and let dinner take you somewhere new.