Manifesto
The problem, the solution, the next steps.
Why?
The reason we're building yet another eCommerce site.
eCommerce market is efficient and effective. It enables the single merchant/supplier reach wider audience. It connect African supplier, merchant with western buyer, making possible to higher margins.
Sadly, due to technology gaps within content or resource and funding within western countries there is NO large organized efforts to export African product rather than import western made product to Africa.
We are developing Nile Basket to close that gap, ultimately improve the trade imbalance one product at a time, and improve Africans life by creating venues for exporting and generate market within western economies.
We want to do better, which is exactly why at Nile Basket we’re doing things differently.
A marketplace for a better tomorrow, better Africa.
How?
Higher Good: Improve African’s life by improving trade imbalance
1. Honesty.
The mission of Nile basket is improve trade imbalance. by enabling Africans export one product at a time. All of the products marketed at Nile Basket sourced within the continent, and made by African. Therefore producing the product within Africa will enable employment as well higher revenue from western country sales.
We also believe in a better African. That's why we'll be giving a percentage of our profits towards making Africa a better plac, now and forever in partnership with FoundersPledge.
2. Diaspora.
Because we're all different and that's something to embrace and celebrate. There is high number of African population within western countries, there is opportunity to supply that market with African products.
Today, there is no convenient method to access African products within one market place. While there are marketplaces that provide some of the solution it is scattered across many sites and are all purely profit driven with minimal consideration for giving back.
Similarly there are a lot of local metro area brick and motor shops, again accessibility is a gap, the product choice is minimal and products are overpriced due to multiple hand exchanges.
Nile Basket plan to compete by studying all products available online or within store and directly source to enable the supplier higher revenue while enabling the buyer access directly through Nile Basket.
Nile Basket plan to charge reasonable Ad and commission fee to sustain and grow business for long time coming.
3. Research.
There's a lot of research on the subjects, unfortunately until now only a few players had the power to do something with it. Not anymore.
We're designing the platform with existing research in mind and experimenting with radical new concepts to tackle some of the previously mentioned issues.
We can't promise our solutions will work, we can however promise that aided by research and open-dialogue, we'll keep trying until they do.