Isombe
Pounded cassava leaves slow-cooked with peanut paste, onions and either smoked fish or anchovies — eaten with ubugali.
Ingredients on the marketplace:
isombe (cassava leaves)ubugali (cassava flour)sim-sim (sesame)
🇷🇼 Rwanda · East African Marketplace
Marikiti is the online marketplace for Rwandan and East African goods in Canada and the USA. Shop isombe, akabanga chili oil, Rwandan coffee, ibirayi and the brands you grew up with — consolidated at our Kenya hub and shipped by sea to your door.
Rwandan cooking is honest, hearty and built around what the Land of a Thousand Hills produces best — beans, cassava, sweet potato, plantain and the dense pounded cassava-leaf stew called isombe. The Rwandan table almost always carries a small bottle of Akabanga, the chili oil with a single drop strong enough to season an entire pot. Rwandan coffee, especially the washed Bourbon from Huye, Nyamasheke and Gakenke, has become a fixture in specialty cafes from Vancouver to Boston, and roasters like Bourbon Coffee and Question Coffee are increasingly visible in Toronto's Rwandan community. Inyange dairy and juice products are a daily staple in Kigali kitchens, and umuceri (rice) with amaru (beans) is the meal most diaspora families recreate when they want to taste home. Marikiti consolidates these goods at our Kenya hub and sea-freights them to North America on a steady 53-day cycle, keeping per-kg rates the lowest available from East Africa.
Authentic staples from Kigali and across Rwanda, sourced through trusted East African vendors.
Rwandan brands shoppers ask for: Akabanga · Inyange · Bourbon Coffee · Question Coffee · Mutzig · Sina Gerard · Azam
Pounded cassava leaves slow-cooked with peanut paste, onions and either smoked fish or anchovies — eaten with ubugali.
Ingredients on the marketplace:
isombe (cassava leaves)ubugali (cassava flour)sim-sim (sesame)
A Kigali Sunday classic — soft potatoes and red kidney beans cooked with onions, tomato and a finishing drop of Akabanga.
Ingredients on the marketplace:
Toronto's Rwandan community has grown steadily since the late 1990s and gathers around fellowship groups in Scarborough and Brampton. Marikiti delivers across the GTA with weekly group-buy pickup points.
Calgary hosts an active Rwandan community in the NE and SE quadrants, with strong attendance at Kwibuka commemorations. Akabanga, Inyange milk powder and Rwandan coffee are among the most requested SKUs.
Boston's Rwandan students and professionals concentrate around Cambridge and the broader MA/NH area. Marikiti delivers to all New England addresses through our US partner facility.
Other Canada cities we deliver to: Toronto · Calgary · Edmonton · Vancouver · Ottawa · Montreal
Rwandan coffee washing stations, Inyange-style dairy distributors, Akabanga distributors and Kigali-based artisans can list on Marikiti and reach Rwandan households across Toronto, Calgary, Boston and beyond. Drop your goods at our Nairobi consolidation hub — we handle export paperwork, HS codes, sea-freight, and onward delivery in North America.
Marikiti is an online marketplace for Rwandan and East African goods delivered across Canada. Vendors list authentic products from Rwanda 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 Rwandan categories include isombe (cassava leaves), akabanga chili oil, ubugali (cassava flour), Rwandan coffee, Rwandan tea, ibihaza (pumpkin), umuceri (rice), amaru (beans), sim-sim (sesame), ground cassava, plus coffee, tea, spices, snacks, beauty products and home goods. Look for trusted brands such as Akabanga, Inyange, Bourbon Coffee, Question Coffee, Mutzig, Sina Gerard, 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 Canada city. Group buys unlock even lower rates.
Marikiti welcomes vendors from across East Africa — Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Rwanda and beyond. If you're a Rwandan producer or wholesaler interested in selling to the diaspora, visit our For Vendors page to register.
Yes. Akabanga is a commercially bottled food product with a complete ingredient declaration and clears CFIA and FDA without restriction.
Yes — washed Bourbon from Huye, Nyamasheke and Gakenke ships in roasted and green form. Specialty buyers can request specific washing stations.
Yes. Frozen pounded cassava leaves are sea-shippable in vacuum-sealed packs; dried isombe is available year-round and ships without refrigeration.
Yes. Inyange UHT milk in tetra packs and milk powder are stocked. Liquid milk only ships in shelf-stable tetra packs, not refrigerated bottles.
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