Out of Africa Impex Ltd derives its identity from Out of Africa Curios & Crafts Ltd which started over a decade ago in the heart of Kisii in western Kenya. The company was created to meet a growing export market for fine hand-crafted ornaments made out of the famous Kisii soap-stone found in the region.

After nearly 9 years in operation and having built a substantial capital base the company’s founders saw a need to divest from the soap-stone crafts business to take advantage of more promising opportunities in the area of large scale cereal farming, transport bulk, sale of low pressure cooking gas, sale of fast moving consumer goods and hardware materials at wholesale & distribution of petroleum products.

These lines of business proved to be more rewarding and a decision was taken to phase out the crafts export business in favour of concentrating efforts on the new business lines. Read more