Prohibited Projects
AfrikaStart prohibits projects that are illegal, heavily regulated, or potentially dangerous for backers, as well as rewards that the creator did not make, produce or create themselves. We reserve the right to deny any campaign which violates our prohibited projecs list:
- Any item claiming to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent an illness or condition (whether via a device, app, book, nutritional supplement, or other means unless explicitly recognized by the USDA as a universally safe food or which carries extensive factual research in the campaign which will be subjected to intense scrutiny).
- Contests, coupons, gambling, and raffles.
- Highly Processed Energy food and drinks.
- Offensive material (e.g., hate speech, encouraging violence against others, etc).
- Offering a genetically modified organism as a reward.
- Live animals. Projects cannot include live animals as a reward.
- Offering alcohol or drugs as a reward.
- Offering financial, money-processing, or credit services; financial intermediaries or cash-equivalent instruments; digital coins, travel services (e.g., vacation packages); phone services (e.g., prepaid phone services, 900 numbers); and business marketing services.
- Political fundraising.
- Pornographic material.
- Projects that promote discrimination, bigotry, or intolerance towards marginalized groups
- Projects that share things that already exist, or repackage a previously-created product, without adding anything new or aiming to iterate on the idea in any way.
- All rewards must have been produced or designed by the project creator or one of its creators — no reselling things from elsewhere.
- Drugs, nicotine, tobacco, vaporizers and related paraphernalia.
- Weapons, replicas of weapons, and weapon accessories.
- Any prohibited materials without proper local government licenses and documents.
- Fake or knockoff products designed to look like other manufacturers products.
If your project involves something illegal, heavily regulated, or potentially dangerous for backers and it is not on this list, please contact us before starting your project.