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- Azizi Life Boutique Kigali CBD
Azizi Life sells fair-trade baskets, jewellery, textiles and home décor made through Rwandan women’s cooperatives. Maker and cooperative information helps shoppers connect individual products with the communities behind them. store page → · open in the atlas → - Bourbon Coffee Shop & Store Kigali CBD
Bourbon Coffee brands itself Rwanda's own specialty coffee, promising quality "from crop to cup" across the country. Its outlets pair single-origin brews with a full food and beverage menu. store page → · open in the atlas → - Dokmai Rwanda Fine Leather Near the Kigali Convention Centre, Kigali, Rwanda
This Kigali workshop hand-cuts and hand-stitches leather bags, wallets, laptop sleeves, and travel accessories, plus a Piñatex vegan-leather line, all designed and made on-site by its own team of leather workers. The shop sits near the Convention Center by the Lemigo Hotel and also trains new leatherworkers through its workshop program. store page → · open in the atlas → - Gahaya Links Kigali, Rwanda
Sisters Joy Ndungutse and Janet Nkubana built Gahaya Links into a network of over 4,000 weavers across 52 cooperatives, producing the agaseke peace baskets - each one hand-stitched from bamboo reed, sisal, and sweetgrass in roughly 30,000 individual stitches. The company reports that 80 percent of its weavers now hold bank accounts and 40 percent have gone on to start their own businesses. store page → · open in the atlas → - Gorillas Gift Shop (Azizi Life) Musanze / Rwanda
The Azizi Life Gorillas Gift Shop sits on the Dian Fossey Fund's Ellen Campus at Kinigi, selling fair-trade Rwandan handicrafts including its exclusive gorilla nose-print baskets and imigongo paintings. On some days visitors can meet the weavers at work or book a hands-on weaving lesson with an artisan on campus. store page → · open in the atlas → - Inema Arts Center Kacyiru, Kigali, Rwanda
Six painter brothers, led by twins Innocent Nkurunziza and Emmanuel Nkuranga, opened this artist-run gallery and studio complex in 2012 to give Kigali's contemporary artists a place to work and show. Up to ten resident artists produce paintings, sculpture, and craft on-site, sold through the center's gallery alongside its café and performance space. store page → · open in the atlas → - Kivubelt Coffee Rubavu District (Lake Kivu), Rwanda
Founded in 2011, Kivubelt runs its own farms and two washing stations at Murundo and Jarama on Lake Kivu, buying cherry from over 500 Rwandan smallholder families. Its fully washed Arabica ships green to the US, Europe and Japan. store page → · open in the atlas → - Moshions Kigali, Rwanda
Designer Moses Turahirwa builds his Kigali label around collections like Ishuri ("school"), cutting culturally rooted silhouettes in bold, unconventional color palettes that read as wearable narrative rather than seasonal trend. Every piece is made in Rwanda, and the brand's creative space in Kigali offers personalized fittings alongside worldwide shipping from its online shop. store page → · open in the atlas → - Question Coffee Gishushu, Kigali, Rwanda
Question Coffee is the retail arm of Sustainable Growers, a social enterprise reinvesting coffee sales into training and trading programs for Rwandan women farmers. Its Kigali Coffee Centre offers cupping classes and a Kigali-Kayonza farm trek. store page → · open in the atlas →