Rooted in Africa. Built for the world.
Tsarona began between two homes, Botswana and Berlin, with one conviction: the crops that can feed a warming world already exist. They just needed a way to reach it.
Food is heritage, sustainability, and impact.
Across Africa, climate-resilient ingredients like the Bambara groundnut grow with minimal water, restore soil through nitrogen fixation, and nourish communities, yet they rarely reach global markets. We exist to change that.
We bring back climate-resilient African crops that have sustained communities for generations, and reimagine them for modern diets, delicious, ethical, and earth-friendly. We work directly with smallholder farmers so that every product supports fair trade, regenerative agriculture, and biodiversity restoration.
Instead of selling sustainability, we start with taste.
From crop to cup, Tsarona stands for transparency, equity, and environmental healing.
It started as a snack. It became a system.
What began as a simple idea, called Bio Wild, to bring the wild, powerful foods of Africa to a new market, grew into something far bigger. The demand was immediate.
But we realised we needed more than a product line. We needed a platform that could bridge worlds, the regulatory pathway, the supply network, the processing know-how that turns a forgotten crop into market-ready food. And so, Tsarona was born.
Our signature Bamba Bites, crunchy outside, fudgy inside, are made from Bambara, a drought-resilient African groundnut. Because when indulgence fits into everyday routines, impact becomes scalable.
Not a product. An ecosystem.
A food brand
That makes heritage ingredients accessible and craveable, proving demand exists before asking anyone to care about the cause.
A farmer network
That creates real economic opportunity, working directly with smallholder producers across 11 African countries.
A movement
Advocating for a more just and diverse food future, one that doesn't rest on a handful of fragile global crops.
Kamogelo Thumankwe · Founder
Kamogelo Thumankwe
Founder
Kamogelo grew up in Botswana, surrounded by climate-resilient, nutrient-dense crops that have sustained African communities for centuries. When she moved to Berlin, she noticed a blind spot in the European plant-based market: it leaned almost entirely on four fragile crops, soy, pea, wheat, and oat.
She founded Bio Wild to introduce one forgotten crop, the Bambara groundnut, through a single line of energy balls. The demand was immediate, validated by over 1,200 early tasters and major B2B clients.
Realising the opportunity was far bigger than a single snack, she evolved the company into Tsarona, a platform bridging Africa's forgotten supercrops with the global food system. Today Tsarona works directly with over 3,000 smallholder farmers across 11 African countries, building the supply chain for the next generation of foods, starting with the world's first Bambara-based chocolate.
Two homes. One food system.
We're building the supply chain for the next generation of foods, starting with Bambara, starting now. If you want to be part of it, so do we.