Hussein Dewji had one thing in mind when he established Zudua (http://www.zudua.com/); to make online shopping for the rising number of Tanzania’s ecommerce community stress-free and friendly. Zudua is a 24/7 service that allows customers enjoy peaceful shopping in the comfort of their homes. Dewaji brought Zudua to the Sahara Sparks event. He shares with IT Edge News, Segun Oruame, his experience at managing an online shop and plans to enter other jurisdictions on the continent.

What are the shopping attitudes, culture that Zudua is changing and improving on inside Tanzania – what’s disruptive about Zudua?

The Tanzanian lifestyle has changed drastically over the last decade, in additional to our cultural shift like the rest of Africa we have been leapfrogging when it comes to implementation and use of technologies. For example, Many Tanzanians never saw landlines in their houses but are now having mobile phones. Most households have both the couples working and rarely get time to buy things they need, so they have to end up compromising with products that are only within their reach. At Zudua our main aim is to make shopping easy, fun and to make products accessible to all Tanzanians. Our platform allows all Tanzanians to shop 24/7 and expect delivery within 1 to 3 days.

What challenges do you face as a startup?

As a startup you have very limited resources. So you are always at a dilemma with prioritizing and juggling between the hundreds of things that are on your table. That said, when you look back at the many hurdles that you have to cross to reach this stage, it motivates you to do so much more.

An e-commerce platform is not just Tech, there are many factors at play including;

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