About Bukra

One platform for intercity travel across Africa

Buses, flights, hotels and parcels, booked from the web, WhatsApp, USSD or the Bukra app.

Our Mission

Millions of people travel between African cities every day for work, family, trade, and school. But booking a ticket still means showing up at a bus station, calling an agent, or asking around. There's no easy way to search routes, compare prices, get a digital ticket, or book from another country.

Bukra connects passengers with bus operators, airlines and hotels on one platform, and carries parcels on the same network. Book from the web, over WhatsApp, or by USSD on a feature phone. Pay by card, in cash at the operator's office, or with mobile money: M-Pesa, MTN MoMo and Airtel Money across East Africa, and DigiCash in South Sudan. And we work in English, French, Arabic, and Swahili because that's what people speak.

The goal is simple. Booking a Juba to Kampala bus should feel as easy as booking any flight online. Africa's transport market is ready for it.

The team

Bukra is built by a small founder-led team based in South Sudan and Uganda.

Kuot Kiir

CEO & Founder

I'm from South Sudan. I started Bukra after a trip in 2023 where I traveled overland from South Sudan to Burundi for a visa. I had to cross four countries, all on manual booking systems. Fragmented operators, delays, breakdowns, and no way to rebook when things went wrong. That trip made the problem impossible to ignore.

The gap is on both sides. Travelers can't easily book across borders, and most bus operators still run on paper. That's why we built Bukra: a simple, mobile-first platform that lets people book buses and flights across Africa, and gives operators the digital tools to run their business properly. Our team works from South Sudan and Uganda, close to the operators and the passengers we serve.

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  Riiny Giir

  Co-Founder & CTO

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  Deng Bol

  South Sudan Market Lead

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  Enock Ssekandi

  Uganda Market Lead

Company

Bukra is a two-sided platform for intercity transport in Africa. Travelers can search, book, and pay for bus and flight tickets, hotel stays and parcel deliveries from the web, WhatsApp, USSD or the Bukra app. Operators get a digital operations layer for route management, real-time booking dashboards, passenger manifests, revenue tracking, and multi-channel ticket distribution. Bukra earns a commission on each completed booking.