Business with flavor

The bags were confiscated once again but this time it led to something positive. “After that experience, I decided to do something to stop further embarrassment of Africans carrying African food products at the hands of quarantine officers across the world,” Bawa said. “My diversifying into food production and processing was the result of the frustration I went through at the hands of customs officials.”

That is how Afro Foods, a food manufacturing and processing company, was born in Nigerian capital Abuja in 2011, going into business four years later after a painstaking research on the market demand. Taking this plunge was not difficult since