Baobab

Early access · 2026

News, markets, and community
for the Black diaspora.

Live commodity prices from across Africa and the diaspora. AI-curated news with a good-news default. Forums for every country, every commodity, every region. A wallet that works where you live — M-Pesa, Mobile Money, stablecoins. The platform itself is the algorithm; the community is yours.

One portal. Three pillars. One graph behind it all.

Every commodity, country, and region has its own page that fuses live data, AI-curated news, and community. Navigate to corn and see the Ghana sub-forum. Navigate to Jamaica and see what trades there. Same surface, every direction.

Pillar 01

Markets

Live commodity tickers, charts, and a map of the continent. Prices in your local currency alongside USD. Source and freshness on every tile.

  • Global majors: oil, cocoa, coffee, gold, copper, cobalt
  • Local exchanges: AFEX, ECX, JSE, NSE
  • Caribbean & diaspora regional context

Pillar 02

News

AI-curated feed of African and diaspora reporting. The default story isn't disaster. Subscribe to publications, follow entities, share into private circles.

  • Reader-style subscriptions, like Google Reader
  • Translate any story into your language
  • Opt into harder news — not the default

Pillar 03

Community

Per-entity forums, group chat for private circles, federated open-source plumbing. The platform polices spam and flags scam patterns; the community shapes itself.

  • Discourse for forums, Matrix for chat
  • Reputation grows from real activity
  • Cooperatives and buying groups as first-class entities

From Accra to Atlanta. From Kingston to Kinshasa.

Baobab connects the continent and the diaspora around shared markets and shared stories. Five launch languages — English, French, Arabic, Portuguese, Swahili — cover most of the continent's urban readers in their primary tongue, with more languages routed in over time.

The wallet meets people where they actually transact: M-Pesa for East Africa, MTN MoMo for West and Central Africa, USDT and USDC on Polygon for cross-border. One percent platform fee on transfers funds the lights — no ads, no surveillance economy.

  • Nigeria · Ghana
  • Kenya · Ethiopia
  • South Africa
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Egypt · Morocco
  • DRC · Angola
  • Jamaica · Haiti
  • Trinidad · Cuba
  • Black UK · US
  • Brazil · Colombia

Different in four real ways.

01

The default story isn't disaster.

The feed leads with opportunity, business, infrastructure, science, culture. Harder news lives behind an opt-in filter — not above the fold.

02

The platform is the intelligence.

No chatbot persona, no avatar to talk to. The AI shows up as inline affordances — explain this move, summarize this story, translate, flag this scam — and as the ranking behind every feed.

03

Money moves on rails that work.

M-Pesa. MTN MoMo. Yellow Card. USDT and USDC on Polygon. One wallet per account, one percent platform fee on transfers. No ads. No data brokerage.

04

The community is yours.

Forums on Discourse, chat on Matrix — both open source, both federated. Cooperatives and buying groups as first-class entities. Reputation builds from real activity, not follower counts.

Be on Baobab before it opens.

Early-access list is the only way in for the first months. We'll write you when there's something to show.