Local Village Africa and the Business of Healing Land, Livelihoods and Markets
StartUp Magazine | 22.01.2026 18:30
Local Village Africa and the Business of Healing Land, Livelihoods and Markets. Local Village Africa did not begin as a product idea. It began as a response to two realities unfolding at the same time. Bee populations were declining at a rate that threatened biodiversity and food security, while rural poverty across Africa continued to deepen, even though these same rural landscapes were ideally suited to sustainable agriculture and beekeeping. For Sipamandla Manqele and Mmabatho Morudi, both raised in villages themselves, this contradiction was impossible to ignore. What emerged was not just a brand, but a working model that links conservation, rural livelihoods and conscious markets into a single ecosystem.
