Retail in Africa
14 retail providers across Africa, publishing 1 API.
Retail across Africa — 14 providers on the APIs.io network sit in both cohorts, and between them they publish 1 indexed API.
1 of the 14 publishes at least one machine-readable API; 13 publish nothing indexed at all. That split is the first thing worth reading here — a vertical can be well represented in a market and still have almost no programmable surface.
By Kin Score band: 10 minimal and 3 emerging.
Leading by rating: Takealot, Source Beauty, Efreshli, In Your Shoe, Konga, Breadfast, and 8 more.
Region membership is derived from three explicit signals — a provider tag, a provider-name pattern, or a stated headquarters in the provider’s own description. This is a map of stated headquarters, not of markets served.
Providers (14)
| Provider | Description | APIs | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Takealot | Takealot is South Africa's largest online retailer and the flagship brand of the Takealot Group, a Cape Town-headquartered e-commerce holding company that is majority-owned (app... | 1 | emerging |
| Source Beauty | Source Beauty is an online beauty and wellbeing marketplace serving Egypt, selling skincare, makeup, fragrance, hair care, body care, K-beauty and wellness/supplement products f... | 0 | emerging |
| Efreshli | Efreshli is a Cairo, Egypt based online home-furnishing and interior-design commerce platform founded in 2018 by Heba El Gabaly. The company lets consumers design and shop their... | 0 | emerging |
| In Your Shoe | In Your Shoe is an Egyptian streetwear and apparel brand, founded in 2018 and based in Cairo, Egypt, that designs and sells playful, statement-driven ready-to-wear pieces — over... | 0 | minimal |
| Konga | Konga is a Lagos, Nigeria-based e-commerce company founded in July 2012 and now operating as Nigeria's leading online shopping marketplace, combining a first-party retail busine... | 0 | minimal |
| Breadfast | Breadfast is an Egyptian quick-commerce and online grocery platform, founded in 2017 in Cairo by Mostafa Amin, Muhammad Habib, and Abdallah Nofal. It delivers groceries, freshly... | 0 | minimal |
| Homzmart | Homzmart is a Cairo, Egypt-based online marketplace for furniture, home decor, appliances, and workspace products that connects thousands of local manufacturers, brands, and mer... | 0 | minimal |
| Jumia | Jumia is a pan-African e-commerce company often described as the "Amazon of Africa." Headquartered in Berlin and listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker JMIA sinc... | 0 | minimal |
| BetaStore, Beta Store | BetaStore (legal entity SimpleMarket Inc., trading as BetaStore.co) is a B2B retail marketplace founded in 2020 by Steve Dakayi-Kamga and Leo-Armel Tchoudjang that serves inform... | 0 | minimal |
| Edfa3ly | Edfa3ly is an Egyptian cross-border e-commerce and online shopping platform that lets consumers in Egypt and the wider MENA region buy products from international retailers and ... | 0 | minimal |
| GoodsMart International | GoodsMart is a Cairo-based premium grocery and household e-commerce delivery startup serving compounds across 6th of October, Sheikh Zayed, and New Cairo. Founded by Rami Fawzi ... | 0 | minimal |
| LNKO | LNKO is a Moroccan direct-to-consumer eyewear brand and e-commerce retailer selling prescription eyeglasses, sunglasses, and children's eyewear (LNKO KIDS) for men and women, pl... | 0 | minimal |
| Noon | Noon is a Dubai-headquartered e-commerce marketplace and digital ecosystem launched in 2017 as a joint venture between Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and Emirati business... | 0 | minimal |
| Copia Global | Copia Global was a Kenyan B2C e-commerce and last-mile distribution company founded by Tracey Turner and Jonathan Lewis to serve middle- and low-income consumers across rural an... | 0 |
Indexed API documents (12)
Two numbers, both real: these providers publish 1 API as their own documents, which the catalog indexes split one-per-resource into 12 documents.
Takealot Create a batch API
Takealot Create an offer API
Takealot Get a batch API
Takealot Get an offer API
Takealot Get offers API
Takealot Get offers count API
Takealot Get stock counts API
Takealot Get stock health API
Takealot sales summary API
Takealot Update an offer API
Takealot view sales API
Takealot view sales orders API
Other industries in Africa
Retail elsewhere
This page is the intersection of two independently computed cohorts:
Africa and
Retail. A provider appears here only when it is
already a member of both. Africa membership is matched on tag, name pattern, stated HQ,
so this is a floor rather than a census — coverage gaps show up here as small numbers, not as absent pages.
Work with this as data
Every region here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.