Established 2020Agricultural Commodity Trading, Import & Export
West Africa's emerging partner for the sourcing, aggregation, and import and export of premium tropical commodities to global markets.
Registry extract
The plain facts.
Verified registry extractAROWOLO OF AFRICA (AOA) is a Beninese agricultural commodity import and export trading company registered under SARL status and incorporated on July 14, 2020, in Cotonou, Benin Republic. The company was founded on the conviction that West Africa’s extraordinary agricultural potential remains systematically underserved by fragmented local trade structures — and that a professionally managed, regionally connected trading house could bridge that gap.
AOA specializes in the sourcing, aggregation, quality grading, import, and export of high-value tropical commodities including raw cashew nuts, cacao beans, soya beans, shea nuts, and groundnuts. Operating across Benin, Togo, Nigeria, and Burkina Faso, the company works directly with farmer networks, producer cooperatives, and supply aggregators to ensure consistent, reliable access to premium-grade agricultural commodities across multiple harvest cycles.
AOA contributes to strengthening West Africa’s agricultural value chain by connecting grassroots producers with industrial processors and international buyers. The company brings together deep local sourcing expertise and regional logistics capability with the commercial standards and documentation practices expected by global trading counterparties.
Read corporate registrationFrom the field
Direct relationships with farmer cooperatives across four countries.
Consolidation at primary and secondary collection points; segregation by origin and grade.
Cotonou port handling, ECOWAS transit documentation, and onward delivery.
FARMER NETWORKS
FIELD AGGREGATION
QUALITY INSPECTION
LOGISTICS & TRANSPORT
DELIVERY TO BUYERS
AOA operates an integrated supply chain model that spans from farmer-level procurement through final delivery to industrial buyers and export loading points. The model is designed to ensure product consistency, minimize handling losses, and provide buyers with reliable volume commitments across seasonal procurement cycles.
Full process detailAOA operates across the West African agricultural corridor, maintaining active sourcing and logistics relationships in four countries:
Regional Operating Footprint
Primary operating territory and registered headquarters. AOA’s core sourcing and logistics infrastructure centers on the Cotonou commercial corridor and extends north toward major cashew and soya production zones.
AOA expanded operations to Togo in 2024 to service ETG’s cocoa and cashew procurement programs. The Togolese cocoa corridor feeds the Lomé port export pipeline.
Nigeria’s northern groundnut belt and southwestern cocoa producing states provide supplementary volume for AOA’s commodity mix, leveraging cross-border ECOWAS movement frameworks.
Landlocked Burkina Faso is a significant origin for shea nuts and soya beans, routed through Benin’s transit corridor to Cotonou port.
Trading relationship since 2016
Commodities Supplied
AOA has supplied ETG Benin across multiple consecutive harvest seasons, providing reliable volumes of cashew and soya through established aggregation and delivery protocols.
Trading relationship since 2022
Commodities Supplied
AOA contributes to Benin’s nationally strategic agricultural industrialization program, supplying raw inputs to the GDIZ processing infrastructure established to add domestic value to commodity exports.
Trading relationship since 2024
Commodities Supplied
AOA’s expansion into the Togolese market in 2024 added a third institutional buyer relationship, reinforcing the company’s multi-country supply capability and commodity range.
West Africa occupies a structurally dominant position in global tropical commodity supply.
West Africa produces over 45% of the world’s raw cashew nuts, with Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Tanzania, and Benin among the top origins.
West Africa — led by Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire — produces approximately 70% of global cocoa supply.
Soya beans and groundnuts from West Africa serve a regional crushing industry that is expanding rapidly to meet growing demand for vegetable oils and protein meal.
Shea nuts and shea butter are sourced almost exclusively from the West African savanna belt.
From Cotonou
Operational updates from the AOA team in Cotonou. New entries each campaign.
Raw cashew nut campaign at week eight of twelve. Aggregation continues at primary collection points across the Borgou and Atlantique departments. Quality grading by outturn ratio under way; bagged lots staged for ETG Benin and GDIZ allocations.
Pre-financing agreements renewed with three farmer cooperatives ahead of the 2026 RCN season. Allocation discussions opened with GDIZ for the Glo-Djigbé processing platform.
Soya bean campaign closed for the 2025-2026 cycle. Final dispatches consolidated at Cotonou-area warehouses; documentation set complete for cross-border ECOWAS movement to onward buyers.
