Install Froocan
Opens in its own window and
still works when you are offline.
It is a search engine, so the box is most of it. The rest is worth two minutes.
Type what you are looking for. Froocan only holds African pages, so you do not need to add “Africa” or a country to every query — searching accounting software here already means African accounting software.
Results are ranked by relevance across the title, description and body, with titles weighted heaviest. No single site may take more than three results on a page, so one large publisher cannot own your search.
The dropdown beside the box scopes a search to one of the 54 countries. A continent is not one market: use it when you want a supplier in Ghana rather than a supplier somewhere in Africa.
African video — music, film, news, sport. Videos play through the platform's own player, so the people who made them keep their view counts. We never re-host anyone's video.
Open Goblin Videos →There is no email and no password. You prove you control a Bitcoin address by signing one line of text in Sparrow or Electrum, and that proof is the login — so there is nothing here to breach, reset, or hand over. Signing costs nothing and moves nothing.
You are given a username automatically, so you are never nameless and never have to invent one.
Sign in →These are two different things, deliberately. Profile is private — only you ever see it. My Page is what visitors see. Nothing crosses from one to the other until you press a share button, so a new account publishes nothing at all by default.
You choose who can view your page, who can read your bio and who may message you — and you can erase your content, or your whole account, whenever you like.
Froocan indexes African pages only. A global site that merely mentions Africa is refused, and so are international outlets' Africa desks — not because their reporting is poor, but because that coverage is exactly what already outranks African publishers everywhere else. Putting it here too would rebuild the problem this engine exists to escape.
If a search finds nothing, it is recorded as a coverage gap and becomes a crawl target. An empty result here is a to-do list, not a dead end.
Froocan works as an app. In your browser's menu choose Install or Add to Home Screen, and it opens in its own window and still loads the pages you have already visited when you are offline.