Verified Marketplace
List and discover African skincare, health and crop products from businesses, cooperatives and NGOs – all with clear profiles, WhatsApp contact and country tags, ready for procurement and partnerships.
Turning African solutions into trusted products, answers and voices
OpenMarket Global is a verified marketplace and digital toolkit for Africa and the Global South. We connect skincare & cosmetics, medical & health products/services, plant & crop inputs, a careful AI health & crop advisor and a live audio translator to the buyers, NGOs, clinics and partners who need them.
What you can use today
For businesses & producers
List your skincare, health or crop products once and become discoverable to clinics, NGOs, buyers and partners across Africa and beyond. Your storefront is mobile-first, comes with WhatsApp contact, and plugs into our advisor, translator and Marketing Studio.
For NGOs & institutions
Turn “beneficiaries” into suppliers, and scattered pilots into live supplier catalogues. Connect your programmes to our marketplace, AI Advisor, Studio and translator so clinics, donors and partners can actually buy from and communicate with the people you support.
For buyers, clinics & co-ops
Browse verified products by country and category, ask the AI Advisor for careful explanations around skin, crops or food, design custom visuals in the Marketing Studio, and use the live Translator or Sign Bridge to bridge language gaps in real conversations.
Featured Stores
Verified and emerging African suppliers for skincare, health and crop inputs. These cards will rotate automatically.
Featured Institutions
Manufacturers, distributors and cooperatives working across African markets.
Featured NGOs
Programmes that turn beneficiaries into visible suppliers and connect them to real buyers.
Why OpenMarket Global matters now
African innovators don’t lack ideas – they lack a visible, trusted market and support layer that connects them to buyers, clinics, NGOs, investors and, now, clear explanations and translation. These four overviews link to deeper articles.
Article 1: Fixing the “pilot trap” for African innovations
Thousands of pilots across Africa prove that local products in skincare, health and crops work. But when grants end, most of these solutions vanish from view. This article explains the “pilot trap” and how OpenMarket Global turns short-lived projects into long-lived suppliers.
Article 2: From “beneficiaries” to visible suppliers
Many African entrepreneurs exist only in PDFs: “50 women trained in soap-making.” We follow a women’s cooperative as it tries to move from being counted in reports to being contacted by buyers and how listing them on OpenMarket Global makes that shift real.
Article 3: Investment in Africa: strong story, weak pipelines
Global narratives celebrate Africa as “the next growth frontier”, but many grounded SMEs and cooperatives still find it hard to raise fair capital. This piece shows how a visible marketplace of verified businesses can unlock more realistic, inclusive investment pipelines.
Article 4: Market access & friction across African borders
A Liberian brand ready for Ghana, a Kenyan supplier ready for Uganda and a maze of forms, standards and trust gaps in between. This article maps those frictions and explains how shared discovery and verification can help African products move as easily as imports.
Stories from our Insights
A few of the patterns that shaped OpenMarket Global – taken from real pilots, cooperatives, clinics and investors.