About Us      

Bwana Paul went to South Africa in 1983 to attend college and studied Social Anthropology. While at Wits thru 1984, our Bwana was also the photo editor for the school paper. Soon thereafter, African Accents was born. In 1985, a retail store in North Carolina was opened while in college at UNC-G. Then, it was time to head west to California.  The business was expanded to include wholesale as well as a retail store in downtown La Jolla on Prospect Street. When the wholesale grew bigger than the retail, the retail shop was to the then manager (who I might add has done a wonderful job with our original store and it is still doing well). African Accents,Inc currently imports from more African nations than any other one wholesaler. The countries that are currently on the roster for importing directly from include:

Ghana, Ivory Coast (Cote D’Ivoire), Mali, Burkina-Faso, Nigeria, Cameroon, Zaire (D.R.C.), Kenya, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. In the past ,the list also included Morocco, Egypt, Senegal, Togo, Liberia, Swaziland, Israel, India, Nepal, Thailand, Turkey and Zambia.

African Accents, Inc. currently and in the past supplied many retail shops, zoos, museums, Mom & Pop’s stores, eBay sellers, mail-order catalogs, websites, QVC, chains, and department stores, U.N. Centers & UNICEF shops. The range extends throughout North & South America, the Caribbean, Europe ,Asia, even a few in Kuwait!  Our pricing structure is very typically wholesale: the more you buy –the cheaper the prices. We do have standard/basic packs to keep our prices low. You will notice that our larger packs are priced with incentives for you to have the best prices available (without going to Africa yourself). You can order directly on-line in our shopping cart, see us at one of the major trade shows, call us, fax us, or even write us a letter by snail mail. Please help us celebrate our 20^th anniversary in 2003!