About Us: African Forest Timber Ltd was established in 2014 but
local legend says it started even before that by family elder brother
Nken M as a freelancer chain saw operator. In 2013, Mr. Angelou decided
to resign as director of IT resources at M-Tech South Africa to start a
sustainable first lumber business specializing in the sale of
fine-quality African hardwoods. His interest in hardwoods comes from his
upbringing in the West African rain forest village, where each school
break holidays was a spectacular moment to taw the rain forest. He later
received his diploma in basic forestry and bee keeping at the
university of Pretoria.The greater part of his life as a kid till
university was assiting his father in freelancing chain saw operations
in the rain forest. So trees were always a part of Angelou’s life.
Initially, he tried to store and sell a limited supply of hardwoods
from his garage at his home at the city of Limbe, but he quickly found
space to be a critical problem. When he had the opportunity to purchase a
small warehouse building just outside of town, he jumped at the chance,
even though he could not afford it. He sold his house and moved into a
small room at on the property so he could buy the building to store more
hardwoods (increasing inventory) and have a woodworking area.
Most of his business was directed to the local community, although he
did (and we still do) receive orders from as far away as North Region.
Each day brought a new request for the company back then and it still
does for African Forest Timber Ltd today. In 2014 when African Forest
Timber bought if first mobile saw mill (Lucas Mill to expand the
services and product line, while making custom milling and personalized
customer service a cornerstone of the business. Now African Forest
Timber Ltd operate multiple mobile saw mills from West to Centre Africa
with large sander, mills, jointer, planer, saws, and chain saws African
Forest Timber Ltd can produce just about anything from custom trim to
table/counter tops to dimensional lumber in any African rain forest tree species and almost any size you choose.