Bridge Africa and the World

African culture is the main unlimited, envied and globally accepted asset that Africans will always own; unlike natural resources that are limited, produced, sold and controlled by others.

Lovers of Africa deserve to appropriate it, consume it and make a living on it freely.

Our mission is to distribute and produce the wealth of African culture as largely as Japanese food, Latin dances or European lifestyle.

For this reason, selling and buying African culture all over the world should be an enjoyable experience done as a community.


Buy, sell and discover African culture

Afrikrea.com: For lovers of Africa

Afrikrea is a French play on word merger between “Africa” and “création” - design in French.

As an ecommerce marketplace, we bring together thousands of sellers from Africa and all over the world. Every day, we enable them to easily start and manage their business online.

We also provide a safe shopping experience for our customers who can buy with trust and ease on our platform. Sellers will only receive the money once your order has been shipped and acknowledged receipt of.

In terms of numbers, that represents:

  • over €15 Millions of transactions in 170 countries
  • 500k+ visits every month
  • 2300+ new products added each week
  • 1200+ messages exchanged each day


ANKA: Sell, ship and get paid globally

ANKA means "ours" in Bambara, a shared language in the region from Mali and Ivory Coast, and across West Africa.

With more than a subscription program, ANKA is a one-stop SaaS solution for African social commerce, exporter and dropshippers that provides and gives sellers access to tailor-made services.

If you want a customized seller platform, seamless coordination of global payments and easy shipping tools, you're at the right place!

Learn more on anka.africa

A Team at your service

Our Story

Afrikrea was created in 2016 with one mission in mind: bridge Africa and the World.

Coming from Mali and Guinea, our co-founders: Moulaye Tabouré, Kadry Diallo and Luc B. Perussault-Diallo all share a common love for Africa and wanted to make Made of Africa products accessible to a wider audience . Moreover, they were dreaming of building a place which would promote financial empowerment for African women through fashion, crafts, arts and culture.

This is how Afrikrea.com was born.

Our Values

WE CRAFT

  • Excellence is a habit to be practiced daily.
  • Always deliver, then improve.
  • Perfect is a swear word. Don't try to be perfect. Iterate instead.
  • Learn, Adapt and Do It until you can scale it.
  • Make something people want.

WE CARE

  • We take our commitment to our clients personally.
  • We are here to serve, anyone who contacts us deserves an answer.
  • Timing is everything in life.
  • Humility is key, just apologize if you make a mistake and fix it.
  • Our customers' problem is ours.

WE SHARE

  • Business is Personal.
  • You cannot create BONDS if you do not GENEROUSLY share & give.
  • Trust = Transparency x Reliability. Our business is: The Trust business.
  • Information is key for the team, customer and our ecosystem.
  • Fairness is the baseline.

A Team Across the World

We are a remote team of 14 nationalities and located on 5 continents: Africa, North and South America, Asia and Europe.



Moulaye TABOURE 🇫🇷🇲🇱🇨🇮, a.k.a. Kal-El
Co-founder & CEO

After growing up in Mali and working all over the world for companies like PwC or Alstom, Moulaye dedicates today his experience to African culture. Thanks to that, Afrikrea.com now processes 10M$ + of transactions in 150+ countries.

Obsessed with service and operational excellence, Moulaye is convinced that distribution through the web is the key to Africa's future.




Abdoul Kadry DIALLO 🇫🇷🇲🇱🇨🇮, a.k.a. Mugiwara
Co-founder & CMO

Passionate about entrepreneurship, Kadry grows to realize how untapped African wealth is and how frustrating it is for its aficionados.

Having grown up between Mali and France, he is heading towards a career in corporate finance, and obtains his Master 2 in Management, Control and Organizational Audit from the University of Paris-Saclay. He eventually embraced a career as an engineer in industrial project management, where he held positions in large groups such as Renault.SA, Siemens Transportation Systems, and EDF.

In 2013, with his childhood friend Moulaye, they decided to unveil African talents by creating Afrikrea.

In 2015, he gave up his job as a project planner to devote himself entirely to their start-up. The team grew with the arrival of Luc and in 2016, the Afrikrea e-commerce platform, which enabled more than 7,000 sellers to carry out more than 10 million euros in transactions, was created.




Luc Boubakar PERUSSAULT-DIALLO 🇫🇷🇲🇱🇨🇮, aka Star Lord
Co-founder & CTO

Passionate about challenges and a born builder, this former navy decided to devote himself to the world of technologies and start-ups in 1999.

With more than 20 years of expertise and after the success of the high traffic marketplace 2xmoinscher.com (1K transactions/day, 2M visits/month) that he created, Luc decides to put his talent and energy to work for the development of African entrepreneurship. In 2016, he decided to join Kadry and Moulaye to jointly build the leader of African fashion online.

After spending years around the world from the South Pacific, to the United States and France, this proud Fulani found his roots in Grand-Bassam, Ivory Coast, where he lives with his 3 children.




Guillaume DARNAUDET 🇫🇷🇲🇱🇨🇮, aka Deadpool
CFO

Raised between Gabon and France and after getting his Master’s degree in Finance at the Skema Business School in Paris, Guillaume decides to start expatriation in Africa.

He spends 6 years working on infrastructure projects all over the continent, handling finances for multi-million euros projects for subsidiaries of VINCI or RAZEL.

As thorough as curious, Guillaume joins the Afrikrea venture as CFO after being an investor at first. He is now delivering unique payment and logistics solutions all over the world and in all African countries.

He is the pillar of Afrikrea’s 20 people team over 4 different continents whose ambition is to build the global infrastructure needed to the economic development of African culture.




Ilan MOUYAL 🇫🇷🇨🇮 a.k.a. Jiraya,
Head of Acquisition




Caroline COSTANZO 🇫🇷🇮🇹🇨🇮 a.k.a. Neytiri,
Head of Customer Experience




Rawdah KHOODORUTH 🇵🇹 a.k.a. Lagertha,
Head of Services




Laetitia WAMANISA 🇫🇷 a.k.a. Nicky Larson,
Head of People & Culture




Ankush KATARIA 🇮🇳 a.k.a. Sachin,
Senior ROR Engineer




Kostas SKLIAS 🇬🇷 a.k.a. Gimli,
Senior ROR Engineer




Lucas MARTINS 🇵🇹 a.k.a. Tintin,
Head of Compliance




Ben BASSEY 🇳🇬
Head of Content




Adeline LEVESCOT 🇿🇦
Head of E-Merchandising & Curation




Olabissi ADJOVI 🇧🇯
Head of Sales




Jessica DOLATABADI 🇹🇬🇫🇷🇮🇷 a.k.a. Nami,
Program & Partnership Manager




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