Luwombo (steamed groundnut stew)
The signature Buganda Sunday dish — chicken, beef or smoked fish steamed in banana leaves with groundnut paste.
Ingredients on the marketplace:
🇺🇬 Uganda · East African Marketplace
Marikiti is the online marketplace for Ugandan and East African goods in Canada and the USA. Shop matoke flour, posho, g-nuts, Ugandan coffee and the brands you grew up with — consolidated at our Kenya hub and shipped by sea to your door.
Ugandan cooking is built around the steamed banana known as matoke, paired with rich groundnut sauces, smoky luwombo stews wrapped in banana leaves, and the dense maize porridge called posho. Breakfast in Kampala often means a flask of milky African tea with chapati or a fried katogo of cassava and beans. Sim-sim (sesame) is roasted with sugar into crunchy bricks that diaspora kids in Toronto and Boston still ask their parents to send. Ugandan coffee — especially the washed Arabicas from Mount Elgon and Bugisu — has quietly become one of Africa's most respected single origins, and brands like Café Pap and Good African Coffee are now shipped weekly to Calgary, Ottawa and Minneapolis through Marikiti. Whether you're recreating a Buganda Sunday lunch or just want a tin of Royco mchuzi mix in Edmonton, the staples your grandmother used are the same ones our Kenya hub consolidates and sea-freights to North America every shipping cycle.
Authentic staples from Kampala and across Uganda, sourced through trusted East African vendors.
Ugandan brands shoppers ask for: Tilda · Mukwano · Blue Band · Movit · Riham · Café Pap · Good African Coffee
The signature Buganda Sunday dish — chicken, beef or smoked fish steamed in banana leaves with groundnut paste.
Ingredients on the marketplace:
A Kampala breakfast staple: cassava or matoke simmered with beans, offal or g-nut sauce until creamy.
Ingredients on the marketplace:
Toronto is home to one of Canada's largest Ugandan diaspora communities, concentrated around Etobicoke, Scarborough and the broader GTA. Marikiti delivers door-to-door across all 416/905 postal codes, with weekly drop-offs near Jane & Finch and Brampton for group-buy orders.
Calgary's Ugandan community has grown rapidly since the early 2010s, with strong fellowships in the NE quadrant. Sea-freight rates to Calgary include onward trucking from our Guelph, Ontario hub, and matoke flour, g-nuts and Ugandan coffee are among the most requested items.
Boston and the wider New England area have a steady Ugandan student and professional population. Marikiti delivers to MA, RI, NH and CT addresses with US customs handled at the border — no extra paperwork on your side.
Other Canada cities we deliver to: Toronto · Calgary · Edmonton · Vancouver · Ottawa · Montreal
Are you a Ugandan producer, wholesaler or roaster? Marikiti lists vendors from Kampala, Jinja, Mbale and beyond. You set the KES price, drop goods at our Nairobi or Kampala collection point, and we handle consolidation, customs and North American delivery. List on Marikiti and reach Ugandan households from Toronto to Houston without touching a shipping label.
Marikiti is an online marketplace for Ugandan and East African goods delivered across Canada. Vendors list authentic products from Uganda 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 Ugandan categories include matoke flour, posho (maize meal), g-nuts (groundnuts), millet flour, sim-sim (sesame), Ugandan coffee, Ugandan tea, cassava flour, royco mchuzi mix, Tilda rice, plus coffee, tea, spices, snacks, beauty products and home goods. Look for trusted brands such as Tilda, Mukwano, Blue Band, Movit, Riham, Café Pap, Good African Coffee.
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, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and beyond. If you're a Ugandan producer or wholesaler interested in selling to the diaspora, visit our For Vendors page to register.
Yes. Ugandan green and roasted coffee — including Bugisu, Mount Elgon and Robusta from the Lake Victoria belt — clears CFIA and FDA without special permits when packaged for retail. We ship roasted beans, ground, and green for home roasters.
Fresh matoke is not shippable by sea, but matoke flour, dried matoke chips and instant matoke mix from brands like Riham are all stocked and ship without restriction.
Yes — Marikiti offers reverse shipping from Guelph, Ontario to Kampala. Air-freight for urgent items, sea-freight for bulk household goods.
Commercially packaged groundnut paste passes CFIA inspection. Homemade or loose g-nut paste cannot be shipped, so look for labelled jars from Mukwano or similar brands on the marketplace.
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