As law is largely a country-specific discipline, formal African legal systems differ from one country to another. The commonly shared feature, however, is that of deep legal pluralism, which produces a multiplicity of normative orders in each society. National legal systems are influenced by colonial history and underpinned by customary law, resulting in a multi-layered legal environment overall. This chapter highlights the influence of traditional usages as a distinct but integral source of business law within pluralist African legal systems. The ‘survival’ of customary arbitration, for instance, clearly indicates the value which local communities attach to familiar transactional and dispute resolution frameworks which more suitably accommodate their voices. This singular feature underscores the importance of an exploratory and inclusive approach to identifying other elements of pluralism in the field of business law in Africa. These include the widening reach of regional law, the huge scale of informal cross-border trade, differing legal frameworks for formal cross-border trade facilitation and the monumental growth of China’s investments in Africa, all of which constitute substantive research areas in themselves in the study of the pertinent subject of legal pluralism in commerce in Africa.