Ubugali na Isombe
Dense cassava porridge served alongside cassava leaves slow-cooked with groundnuts, palm oil and dried fish.
Ingredients on the marketplace:
🇧🇮 Burundi · East African Marketplace
Marikiti brings authentic Burundian and East African goods to the diaspora in Canada and the USA. Shop ubugali, isombe, Burundian coffee, mukeke and the brands you grew up with — consolidated at our Kenya hub and sea-freighted to your door.
Burundian cooking shares many roots with Rwandan and eastern Congolese cuisine — the same pounded cassava-leaf stews, the same dense ubugali, the same love of slow-cooked beans and groundnut sauces. What sets the Burundian table apart is the country's deep connection to Lake Tanganyika: the tiny sardines called ndagala (or dagaa across the border) and the larger mukeke fish are dried in the sun along the Bujumbura lakefront and shipped across East Africa. Burundian coffee — washed Bourbon from the Kayanza and Ngozi hills — has quietly become one of Africa's most sought-after specialty origins, sold under labels like Café Buja and OTB. Marikiti consolidates Burundian goods at our Kenya hub, only one border away, and sea-freights them to North America on the same 53-day cycle that serves the entire region. Diaspora families in Toronto, Boston and Ottawa can now order the lake fish, the coffee and the cassava staples that defined home.
Authentic staples from Bujumbura and across Burundi, sourced through trusted East African vendors.
Burundian brands shoppers ask for: Buja Sun · Brarudi · Sina Gerard · OTB Tea · Café Buja · Inyange · Azam
Dense cassava porridge served alongside cassava leaves slow-cooked with groundnuts, palm oil and dried fish.
Ingredients on the marketplace:
Sun-dried mukeke from Lake Tanganyika simmered with onions, tomato and red kidney beans — a Bujumbura lakeside classic.
Ingredients on the marketplace:
Toronto's Burundian community is small but tight-knit, often overlapping with Rwandan and Congolese fellowships in Scarborough and Brampton. Marikiti delivers door-to-door across the GTA and consolidates group orders for community events.
Ottawa hosts a steady Burundian diaspora with strong family networks. Sea-freight from our Guelph hub reaches Ottawa within 4–5 days of Canadian arrival.
Boston's Burundian community is concentrated in the Greater Boston / Lowell area. Marikiti delivers across New England via the US partner facility.
Other North America cities we deliver to: Toronto · Calgary · Edmonton · Vancouver · Ottawa · Montreal · Boston · Dallas · Houston · Atlanta · Minneapolis · New York
Burundian coffee washing stations, Kayanza and Ngozi roasters, and Bujumbura lakefront fish processors can list on Marikiti and reach the diaspora in Canada and the USA. Drop your goods at our Nairobi hub — we handle export paperwork, HS codes, sea-freight and onward delivery.
Marikiti is an online marketplace for Burundian and East African goods delivered across North America. Vendors list authentic products from Burundi and the wider East African region, we consolidate orders at our Kenya hub, and ship by sea-freight (about 53 days) to Guelph, Ontario — then onward to Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal and beyond.
Popular Burundian categories include ubugali (cassava flour), isombe (cassava leaves), Burundian coffee, Burundian tea, mukeke (dried fish), ndagala (sardines), red kidney beans, groundnuts, palm oil, plantains, plus coffee, tea, spices, snacks, beauty products and home goods. Look for trusted brands such as Buja Sun, Brarudi, Sina Gerard, OTB Tea, Café Buja, Inyange, Azam.
You shop the marketplace, vendors drop your goods at our Kenya consolidation hub, we sea-freight everything together (the cheapest per-kg route from East Africa), then we deliver to your address in Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver or any other North America city. Group buys unlock even lower rates.
Marikiti welcomes vendors from across East Africa — Kenya, Burundi, Tanzania, Rwanda and beyond. If you're a Burundian producer or wholesaler interested in selling to the diaspora, visit our For Vendors page to register.
Yes. Commercially packaged, fully-dried fish products clear CFIA and FDA when properly declared on the commercial invoice. Marikiti handles the paperwork.
Yes — Kayanza, Ngozi and Karusi single-origin Bourbon ships in roasted and green form. Volumes are typically smaller than Rwandan or Ethiopian, so larger orders are pre-arranged.
Yes. Both East African red palm oil and refined palm oil are stocked, sold in 1L, 2L and 5L formats.
Roughly 53 days door-to-door on the sea-freight route, plus 4–5 days onward trucking from our Guelph hub or US partner facility.
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