Vicki Bain is a businesswoman and an enthusiastic chocolatier. She together with a team of women from around the continent, created Chocoloza, which combines the best Belgian chocolate with the freshest local African ingredients. As a result, you'll experience a flavor sensation unlike any other in the chocolate world.

Local farmers and other sustainable fair trade partners provide the flavors and ingredients for the confections, which include berries and coffee beans. Their chocolate boxes are 100 percent recyclable, and they provide a discount on chocolate refills to encourage customers to reuse them. Amaretta, Chilli & Lemon Grass, Granadilla Passion, and pure Belgian chocolate are among the unusual flavors included in the boxes.

• Address: 44 Stanley, Braamfontein Werf (Milpark), Joburg, 2092
• Website: chocoloza.co.za

Since 1940, Chocolatier Robert, Madagascar's first commercial chocolatier, has been manufacturing single-origin chocolate on the island. The company has grown to become one of the country's most important contributors to the economy, and it is on a mission to introduce Madagascan chocolate to the rest of the globe.

The Academy of Chocolate has given them multiple honors, including the 2017 Golden Bean for their 100 percent dark chocolate, which is the best pure dark chocolate in the world.

• Foundation: 1940
• Address: Jardin Antaninarenina, Tananarive, Madagascar
  
• Website: ww.chocolaterierobert.com

Chef Selassie Atadika is the mastermind behind Midunu Chocolate. Selassie Atadika, a Ghanaian chocolatier, manufactures artisanal handcrafted chocolate truffles using Ghanaian cocoa.

Spices, fruits, coffee, and tea are used to infuse the confections with African flavors. Moringa, ginger, star fruit, ginger, and a variety of other ingredients can be found among the truffles. Midunu items are of excellent quality, and local Ghanaians, returnees, expatriates, and tourists all like them.

A lot of thought goes into the design and nomenclature of each truffle variety, in addition to the unique flavors. The dishes are named after local women whose flavors influenced them. Thando, for example, is made with South African Rooibos, whereas Almzaz is made with Ethiopian berbere spice.

• Address: 21 Silica St, Accra, Ghana
• Website: us.midunuchocolates.com

Femi Oyedipe developed LoshesChocolate in 2015. It is a single origin, bean-to-bar chocolate maker and chocolatier based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Nigeria is one of the world's largest cocoa bean producers. This makes it simple for LoshesChocolate to obtain the highest-quality cocoa beans. Handcrafted premium-grade chocolates are produced by the company. LoshesChocolate makes quality bean-to-bar chocolate using cacao beans sustainably sourced from South Western Nigeria.

Their preservative-free chocolates are handcrafted in small batches using only three ingredients: cocoa, milk, and sugar. When flavors are added, they make up less than 1% of the total weight of the chocolate, resulting in a bar of high-quality, single-origin premium chocolate. They want to make a difference, and they plan to do it by following the fundamental principles of hard work, innovation, integrity, commitment, and passion.

• Founded: 2015
• Address: 1, Adeyemi Bero Crescent, Ilupeju Industrial Estate, Anthony-Oshodi, Ikeja, Nigeria
• Website: losheschocolate.com

Savanna Premium Chocolate is owned and operated by a woman. It was co-founded by two award-winning chocolate producers from Zambia, Lynn, and Chiinga.

With beans supplied from Tanzania, this single-origin Zambian chocolate firm offers luxury vegan and lactose-free bars. There are no preservatives, additives, or artificial flavors or colors in Savanna chocolates. Pure cocoa butter is used to make milk and white chocolates.

The cocoa beans are purchased directly from farmers. This guarantees the freshest and highest-quality cocoa beans and encourages farmers to produce their own. Pink salt dark chocolate, baobab dark chocolate, and chilli dark chocolate are just a handful of the flavors available. At the 2019 Chocolate Award, the Ginger Milk Chocolate Bar took home the European Bronze International.

• Address: Kasama Road, lusaka, Lusaka 10100, ZM
• Website: www.savannachocolate.com

Mon Choco has earned a name in Côte d'Ivoire for promoting the country's renowned cocoa bean quality through its unique artisanal raw chocolate brand. Dana Mroueh, the passionate artisan chocolatier and founder of Mon Choco, has amassed a devoted following. They adore her unique raw chocolate brand and line of products, which never fail to delight aficionados around the country and beyond.

She is committed to using locally sourced flavors and ingredients in her goods. This artisanal bean-to-bar chocolatier uses only West African growers to make fair trade chocolate. The chocolate is organic and prepared from raw cacao beans into fondant, maintaining the beans' flavor and nutritional content. The chocolate collection contains a variety of tantalizing flavors like ginger and cashew.

The company works with cocoa planters that follow organic, forest-friendly practices and employs a team of women across many operational sectors. Furthermore, the chocolate bars are hand wrapped in recyclable paper to lessen their environmental impact.

• Address: Abidjan, Ivory Coast
• Website: www.monchoco.com

The founder's ambition to empower local farmers and aid development through chocolate led to the creation of this single origin chocolate.

The company obtains its beans and manufactures its chocolate bars in Ghana. This locally produced product keeps a higher percentage of earnings in the country while also offering social benefits to individuals involved in the manufacturing process, such as health insurance and education.

The chocolate bars are gluten-free and organic, and the wrappers are also recyclable. They've just embraced a zero-waste strategy, allowing them to sell their chocolate bars in zero-waste establishments.

• Address: Ghana
• Website: fairafric.com

This chocolatier is housed in a historic Cape Dutch home in Paarl, South Africa's Spice Route. They make 100 percent African chocolates with cocoa acquired ethically and responsibly from small-scale farmers in Western Uganda's Bundibugyo region.

The Chocolatier's goal is to make chocolate available to everyone, regardless of dietary restrictions. As a result, Pieter set himself the difficult task of inventing a sugar-free option that tasted as good as the rest of the De Villiers Chocolate goods. He chose ingredients that closely resemble the sensory profile of sugar while maintaining the De Villiers Chocolate experience at the forefront of his new creations. Lactose and gluten intolerant chocolate lovers will like these treats as well.

De Villiers is one of the few UTZ-certified chocolatiers in Africa. All De Villiers Chocolate bars are Rainforest Alliance Certified, demonstrating support for a mission that ensures a brighter future for both man and nature. In addition, the chocolate producer is the only South African chocolate company whose chocolates have been approved by the International Vegan Society.

• Founded: 2009
• Address: Unit 1 Simondium Guild, Simondium, Cape Winelands, Western Cape, South Africa
• Website: us.devillierschocolate.com
  

'57 Chocolate is Ghana's bean-to-bar chocolate enterprise. '57 refers to Ghana's independence year of 1957. '57, a firm started by two Pan-African sisters, commemorates Ghana's Independence Day by making finished things in small batches using the country's resources to make delightful sweets.

This enterprise creates tasty, creative chocolate desserts using materials grown in the land. In '57, these tenacious, inventive entrepreneurs transform dried cocoa beans into opulent chocolate and confections that reflect and celebrate Ghanaian art and culture.

'57 is a film about patriotism and instilling an entrepreneurial spirit in Ghana's youth. They want to reintroduce manufacturing to Ghana.

• Founded: 2016
• Address: Accra, Ghana
  
• Website: 57chocolategh.com

Afrikoa is a multi-award-winning chocolate brand made in Cape Town from heirloom-certified direct-trade Tanzanian cocoa beans.

Afrikoa was the first African chocolate to be made with heirloom cocoa beans which are considered the diamonds of cocoa. These unique cocoa trees and beans have historical, cultural, botanical, geographical, and, most importantly, flavor importance. They are the building blocks of the best chocolate. Heirloom beans have a unique flavor and a great overall balance – complex and powerful, lengthy and pleasant.

Their chocolate is the first to receive a 2-star Great Taste Award for being farmed and produced in Africa.

• Founded 2015
• Address: 2b Elegance Rd, Cape Town, Western Cape 7441, ZA
• Website: afrikoa.com