Ground-Level Intelligence on Africa’s Real Supply Chains
What We Do
Lubembo Intel is a market intelligence platform focused on Africa’s agricultural and natural-resource supply chains, with a particular emphasis on superfoods, honey, and emerging export commodities.
We publish on-the-ground intelligence—not desk research—drawn from real market transactions, producer networks, logistics routes, and regulatory realities across Central, East, and West Africa.
Our goal is simple: to help buyers, investors, operators, and institutions separate narrative from execution when it comes to sourcing from Africa.
Why Lubembo Intel Exists
Global demand for African-origin products—baobab, moringa, hibiscus, honey, and other natural inputs—is growing rapidly across the United States, Europe, and Gulf markets.
Yet most information about African supply chains is:
- outdated
- overly theoretical
- NGO-driven rather than operator-driven
- or written by analysts who have never moved a shipment
Lubembo Intel exists to close that gap.
We focus on what actually moves, what breaks, and what quietly works—from village-level sourcing to export compliance and last-mile logistics.
Our Edge: Bottom-Up Intelligence
Lubembo Intel is built from the bottom up.
Our insights come from:
- firsthand sourcing and aggregation experience
- market-level price discovery
- interactions with traders, processors, and transporters
- regulatory navigation across multiple African jurisdictions
- lived execution, not hypothetical models
This allows us to answer questions most reports avoid:
- Where does value really leak in African supply chains?
- Which commodities are viable now—not just promising on paper?
- What scale is realistic without heavy donor support?
- Where should buyers insist on processing—and where should they not?
Focus Areas
While our scope evolves with the market, Lubembo Intel currently focuses on:
- Superfoods & natural ingredients (baobab, moringa, hibiscus, honey)
- Origin analysis across DRC, Kenya, Senegal, Nigeria, and adjacent markets
- Processing and milling realities in low-infrastructure environments
- Export readiness (labs, standards, compliance, bottlenecks)
- Logistics and last-mile economics
- Aggregator and cooperative models
- Diaspora-led operating strategies
Who Lubembo Intel Is For
Lubembo Intel is designed for readers who need signal, not hype, including:
- Specialty food and ingredient buyers
- Importers and distributors
- Private investors and family offices
- Development finance institutions
- Trade advisors and policy professionals
- Operators exploring African sourcing strategies
If you are looking for surface-level optimism, this may not be the right platform.
If you are looking for clear-eyed insight grounded in reality, you are exactly where you should be.
Free vs Paid Intelligence
We publish:
- Free essays and field notes that surface emerging patterns, risks, and opportunities
- Paid reports that go deeper into pricing structures, feasibility analysis, supply modeling, and execution pathways
Free content is designed to inform and provoke better questions.
Paid intelligence is designed to support real decisions.
Our Philosophy
Africa is not “the next frontier.”
It is already producing—just not always in ways global markets understand or accommodate.
Lubembo Intel exists to translate that reality.