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Diaspora Main Street Report 2026.

Where African and Caribbean diaspora businesses are, what they sell, and how many are still invisible online. Headline findings from the Ni Biashara catalog.

Snapshot: Nov 9, 2026. Live listing count today: 2,127 across 131 metros.

Five findings

  1. 2,127 businesses across 131 metro areas. The biggest clusters are New York · New Jersey (224), Dallas–Fort Worth (155), the DMV (154), Atlanta (141) and Houston (130).
  2. Food is the front door. 1,375 listings (65%) are restaurants and food businesses, followed by salons and barbers, then grocers and markets.
  3. 374 businesses (18%) have no website or social link we could find. 219 restaurants (16% of them) have no website.
  4. Texas is a diaspora capital. Dallas–Fort Worth and Houston together hold 285 listings, more than the New York area.
  5. Almost every listing is still unclaimed. Owners have confirmed 4 listings so far. Claiming is free and takes a few minutes at nibiashara.com/claim.

Why it matters now

These businesses sit next to the money that moves home. Kenya’s remittances from North America fell 11.19% in January to September 2026, according to Central Bank of Kenya data reported by Business Daily. When remittances tighten, the shop down the street carries more of the community.

Global Entrepreneurship Week runs Nov 16–22 (GEN) and Small Business Saturday is Nov 28 (SBA). Every metro list here can be shared for both.

The agent economy

The same data now has machine customers. Ni Biashara Shelves sells African FX rates, naira and cedi street rates, freight and sanctions checks and diaspora metro snapshots to AI agents, paid per call in USDC over x402.

Method and data

Listings are compiled from public sources and Ni Biashara Networks community groups, then checked against each business’s own pages. “No web or social” means no website, Facebook or Instagram link was found for the listing at the snapshot date. Counts change as businesses are added, corrected or removed.

Full data: metro-by-metro and category breakdowns, gap counts and listing-level detail are sold to AI agents on Ni Biashara Shelves, paid per call. Journalists who need a specific metro figure can email [email protected]. Please credit “Ni Biashara Diaspora Main Street Report 2026”. Press: press kit.