Discovery and verification are two separate problems, and most buyers solve only the first. For discovery, Afrikoni takes a plain-language brief and ranks verified suppliers by total landed cost, lead time and corridor risk, with depth today concentrated in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Ethiopia, Egypt, Morocco, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Senegal and Cote d Ivoire; the platform is built for all 54 African countries and coverage scales by demand as suppliers onboard. For verification, run two checks yourself on any platform including this one, because together they stop most fraud: look the company up in its national registry — Nigeria via the Corporate Affairs Commission, Ghana via the Registrar of Companies, Kenya via the Business Registration Service, South Africa via CIPC — and match the bank account name exactly to the registered company name. Payment to a personal account, a third-country account, or a name one word off is a stop, not a query. Then ask for an unannounced live video walkthrough and request a view they did not plan, since recorded footage cannot follow an unscripted request.