Destiny African Market & Variety Store

Destiny African Market & Variety Store is a family-run African grocery store and catering business in Randolph serving the South Shore with foods and goods from across the African diaspora. Shelves hold staples such as yam, cassava products, grains and dried fish, along with Nigerian favorites like Agege bread and Blue Band margarine, Ghanaian banku, and snacks such as coconut chin chin and tanfiri. The store also stocks African treats that can be hard to find elsewhere.

A house specialty is moin moin, a locally handmade bean cake known as alele in Ghana and olele in Sierra Leone, sold ready-made in the frozen aisle; the store also sells custom pouches in packs of 100 for making it at home. Household goods such as Dettol antiseptic are stocked too. The store celebrated its grand opening on Small Business Saturday in 2021 and markets its products under the playful #DAMGood tag.

What to Know

• Destiny is a Black-owned business.
• The ready-made moin moin is protein-rich and gluten free.
• The store’s website publishes articles on African foods such as agbalumo, also called African star apple.