About Fair Waga
Built for Africa's
Market Future.
Fair Waga is Africa's dedicated market intelligence infrastructure — collecting, verifying, and distributing trusted real-time commodity and economic data so that businesses, governments, and developers can make decisions grounded in fact.
Our Mission
Transparent markets.
Better decisions.
Stronger economies.
Across Africa, critical market information is fragmented, delayed, or simply unavailable. Farmers, traders, and policymakers make high-stakes decisions without reliable data — and this information asymmetry costs the continent billions every year.
Fair Waga exists to fix this. We are building the infrastructure layer that Africa's digital economy needs: a single, trusted, machine-readable source of truth for commodity prices, supply volumes, and market trends.
$2.6T+
Africa GDP served
1.4B+
People across the continent
54
Countries in our scope
< 5min
Data refresh latency
What We Build
Four core principles behind every decision.
Trusted Data
Every price point we publish goes through a rigorous collection, verification, and standardisation pipeline before it reaches our users.
Real-Time Delivery
From field collection to API response in minutes — not days — so businesses always act on the freshest intelligence.
Pan-African Scope
Starting in Ethiopia, expanding across East Africa and beyond. One unified standard for commodity and market data continent-wide.
Open & Accountable
We publish our methodology, version our datasets, and maintain an auditable changelog so anyone can verify our work.
Founding Story
Started in Addis Ababa. Built for the continent.
Fair Waga was founded by a team that lived the problem firsthand — watching commodity traders lose money to stale price information, and watching smallholder farmers sell below true market value simply because they had no visibility beyond their local market.
We started collecting and verifying price data in Ethiopia's major commodity markets and built the Fair Waga Market Index (FWMI) as our first public data product. Every line of code since has been written with one goal: make reliable market intelligence available to anyone in Africa who needs it.
Our Values
What we stand for.
Transparency
Every data point has a traceable origin.
Accuracy
We would rather publish nothing than publish wrong data.
Accessibility
Market intelligence should not be a luxury.
Scale
Built from day one for continent-wide throughput.