Viability of African pear seed-oil as a potential feedstock for biodiesel was examined in this work. The yield of the extracted oil was 59% of the total seed. Gas-chromatographic analysis of the oil extract showed that the oil was predominantly constituted by mono-unsaturated fatty acid (oleic acid, 76%) while the total percentage of its saturated fatty acids was 24% 6.1%, stearic acid, 7.5% and others, 10.4%). Pre-treatment of the oil extract with 1% w/w H2S04 showed tremendous reduction in the free fatty acid from 12.33+0.05 to 0.10+0.02 mg KOH/g. Biodiesel yield of the seed oil attained optimum yields at the methanol/oil molar ratio of 7:1, catalyst concentration of 1.00%, reaction temperature of 60°C, agitation speed of 850 rpm and effective contact time of 120 min. However, the yields of the biodiesel were higher at these experimental conditions with homogeneous KOH catalyst than its NaOH counterpart. Fuel properties such. As smoke point, flash point, fire point, viscosity and specific gravity exhibited by the biodiesel of African pear (D. edulis) were found comparable with those of the petrol-diesel, and the values also fell within the acceptable limits of ASTM and EN standards.