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Africa 2000 is an independent African and Afrocentric goods retailer at 19 E. 3rd Street in Kansas City’s River Market, operating as a merchant of the City Market. It sells clothing, accessories and jewelry. Owner and founding year are not established by any source read on 2026-08-13.

Description

Africa 2000 is a retail shop at 19 E. 3rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, listed as a merchant of the City Market in the River Market district. The City Market’s own merchant listing describes the business in a single line: “Shop a large selection of African and Afrocentric products such as clothing, accessories and jewelry at unbeatable prices.”1 The shop’s Facebook page carries a near-identical self-description — “We offer a large selection of African and Afrocentric products at unbeatable prices” — which is the basis for treating the Facebook page as the business’s own.2

Africa 2000 sits at a distinct street address (19 E. 3rd Street) rather than a suite inside the 400 Grand Boulevard market hall used by many City Market merchants, including level-one-game-shop and kc-soda-co. It is one of the market’s non-food independents.

Beyond the product categories and contact details above, no biographical, ownership or founding information for Africa 2000 was recoverable from any source opened on 2026-08-13. Search-result aggregation surfaced a February 2022 City Market Instagram post captioned “Meet the owner of Africa 2000,” but the post as retrieved does not name the owner, so no name is recorded here.3 Nothing in this page is drawn from an unopened search summary.

Products / What they sell

This is a retail business, not a food business: menu_status: na. The analogous artifact is a product range. Categories below are taken verbatim from first-party and venue sources; no catalogue, item list or prices are reconstructed or estimated.

  • African and Afrocentric clothing12
  • Accessories1
  • Jewelry1

No first-party price list was recoverable on 2026-08-13. The business’s own Square storefront (africa-2000.square.site), which is the link the City Market listing points at, returned HTTP 404 when requested directly on 2026-08-13, so any prices it once carried are not currently retrievable.4 “ — a live first-party product or price surface.

Operating status

Active (provisional). Evidence of current operation on 2026-08-13:

  • The City Market’s own merchant page for Africa 2000 resolves (HTTP 200) and carries an embedded schema.org dateModified of 2026-03-17, i.e. the venue was maintaining this merchant’s listing five months before the check.1
  • The business’s Facebook page resolves and is public.2

Countervailing signal: the business’s own linked Square storefront is dead (404).4 A dead e-commerce link is not by itself evidence of closure — the venue listing is the stronger and more recent signal — but it is recorded here rather than omitted, and it means no first-party surface published by the business itself was confirmed current on 2026-08-13. A physical or telephone check would settle this. “

Sources

Footnotes

  1. The City Market — official merchant listing, “Africa 2000” — asserts: Africa 2000 is a listed City Market merchant; address 19 E. 3rd Street, Kansas City, MO 64106; phone (816) 655-7095; hours “Monday, closed / Thursday – Sunday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.”; description “Shop a large selection of African and Afrocentric products such as clothing, accessories and jewelry at unbeatable prices.”; listed website africa-2000.square.site; map position “Location 4”. Page source carries schema.org datePublished 2018-11-28 and dateModified 2026-03-17. (Retrieved 2026-08-13.) ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  2. Africa 2000 — Facebook page, “Africa2000 | Kansas City MO” — asserts: page title “Africa2000 | Kansas City MO”; page description “Africa2000, Kansas City. 258 likes · 19 were here. We offer a large selection of African and Afrocentric products at unbeatable prices.”; establishes the business’s own social presence and a self-description matching the venue listing. Does not state an owner name or founding year. (Retrieved 2026-08-13.) ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. The City Market — Instagram post, “Meet the owner of Africa 2000, Welcome Red Wagyu KC, Check Out Award-winning Reads, and more!” (February 25, 2022) — asserts: the City Market ran an owner feature on Africa 2000 in February 2022, corroborating that the business was an active merchant at that date. Does not name the owner in the retrievable caption; no owner name is taken from it. ↩

  4. africa-2000.square.site — the Square storefront linked from the City Market merchant listing — asserts: the host resolves in DNS (74.115.51.4 / 74.115.51.5) but the site returned HTTP 404 Not Found on direct request. Negative evidence: the business’s own linked e-commerce surface was not retrievable on 2026-08-13. (Checked 2026-08-13.) ↩ ↩2

See also

  • Registry
  • Owner-And-History-Research-Toolchain
Categories

On the record — ks.city/registry/africa-2000 · record updated 2026-08-13