Our story
About Ojamma
At Ojamma, we believe food carries memory, culture, and identity. Every ingredient has a story, every recipe connects generations, and every creator helps keep the culture moving forward.
Africa is not one kitchen. Neither is the Caribbean. Ojamma exists so that richness is easier to find, shop, share, and cook.
What we do
From market to kitchen to community
Ojamma connects people with trusted local markets, independent food sellers, and food creators. Choose a path.
Market
Shop the ingredients behind familiar favorites and new discoveries, from the same kind of shelves that keep the culture stocked.
Shop groceriesHow rich this food is
Tap an origin. Taste a different Africa, a different Caribbean.
The continent is vast. The islands are vast. Open a country to see the kitchen Ojamma is built to carry.
Central Africa
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Pondu, fufu, moambe, cassava, plantain, smoked fish, palm oil
The Congo Basin is one of the richest food landscapes on earth: river fish, cassava leaves, palm, chili, and the slow pots that turn them into a gathering. This is where Ojamma begins.
Shop this originFounder origins
Before Ojamma, there was Congo.
The founder’s story does not start in a startup. It starts in the Democratic Republic of Congo: river, market, family pot, and a teenager who left without leaving the table behind.
The heart of Africa
Gerard Kasemba was born and raised in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country at the center of the continent, named with the great river that cuts through it.
The Congo Basin holds rainforest, river, savanna, and some of the most generous growing ground in the world. Cassava, plantain, palm, chili, groundnut, and freshwater fish are not specialties there. They are everyday life.
Languages fill the markets: Lingala, Kikongo, Tshiluba, Swahili, French, and many more. Food is how those worlds sit at the same table.
How that origin became Ojamma
Walk the path. Each step is still in the product: markets, recipes, creators, and a promise to bring home within reach.
01 · Congo
Born and raised in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where food is memory, language, and gathering.
At its core, Ojamma is about bringing home within reach and being a place where this culture can be experienced, supported, shared, and carried forward.
Come cook with us.
Shop the market, follow a recipe, or sell the foods that kept your home close.