🛒 Africa Market LLC — Buffalo
1379 Main St, Buffalo · (716) 400-2356. African products, spices and sauces, fresh produce and specialty items.
Service exchange & marketplace
Request a service. Offer a service. Grow a business.
This is the community's front desk and marketplace in one: ask for help, post what you do, and market your business to Congolese families across New York.
What do you need help with?
Fill this in and it opens a ready-to-send email to the Umoja243 team, who match you with a volunteer or trusted provider in your city. Urgent asylum or housing cases: say so in the details — those go first.
Offer your skills — or market your business
Braiding, tailoring, catering, tax help, moving, cleaning, tutoring, photography, real estate, a shop, a restaurant — if the community needs it, post it. Your listing appears on the community board below right away, and the form also drafts an email to the team for promotion in the newsletter and store.
Listings marked “Example” show the format — real postings from the form above appear here instantly during your visit. To keep a listing promoted beyond today, send it to the team from the Post tab.
African Grocery Stores
A taste of home, near home.
Where to find pondu (cassava leaves), makayabu, fumbwa, kwanga, pilipili, plantain, palm oil and the ingredients that make a house smell like Kinshasa. Checked Nov 3, 2026 — entries without a “Verified” mark are examples to be confirmed; call before a long trip.
🛒 African Market Center and Deli — Buffalo
355 Grant St, Buffalo (West Side) · (716) 882-8786. Groceries and deli serving Buffalo's African community.
🛒 Syracuse — Northside international markets
EXAMPLE ENTRY — The Northside (Butternut St / N. Salina St corridor) hosts several international markets carrying African staples; the organization will confirm names, addresses and phones for this directory. Ask the welcome team meanwhile.
🛒 Rochester — African & international markets
EXAMPLE ENTRY — Rochester's international markets (including around the Public Market district) stock African ingredients; confirmed listings will replace this card.
🛒 Albany · Utica · Binghamton
EXAMPLE ENTRY — Each city has international grocers serving African families; Utica's refugee community supports several. Confirmed listings will replace this card — tell us your favorite via the contact form.
🧺 What to look for
- Frozen pondu & saka-saka, makayabu (salt fish), smoked fish, fumbwa (forest mushrooms) when in stock
- Kwanga & fufu flour, plantain, yam, palm oil, ground egusi & ogbono
- Pilipili, pili-pili sauces, Maggi, and Congolese coffee & tea
- Ask the owner — African grocers often order requested items on the next shipment.