The intelligence layer for African digital infrastructure

Infrastructure intelligence for Africa.

The verified, machine-readable index of African APIs, MCP servers, datasets and AI infrastructure. Built for developers, and the agents they build.

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477+ verified resources live in Nigeria · more African countries rolling out

Paystack

Flutterwave

Monnify

Smile ID

Prembly

Termii

Africa's Talking

Verified resources: 477
Categories: 9
Mapped links: 54
Last verified: 2026-10-10

Browse by category

The building blocks of African AI-product infrastructure.

158 verified

APIs

Payments, KYC, telecom, banking, logistics, government and more, with live status and licensing flags.

Browse 71 verified

MCP Servers

Model Context Protocol servers for Africa, let AI agents call African infrastructure.

Browse 71 verified

Datasets

Geographic, economic, health, energy, telecom and AI datasets, with format and freshness notes.

Browse 63 verified

Developer Tools

SDKs, libraries, validators and utilities that solve problems specific to African markets.

Browse 52 verified

AI Resources

African language models, speech & text datasets, and AI infrastructure.

Browse 9 verified

AI Agents

Deployable AI agents for African business, government, health, support and agriculture use cases.

Browse 20 verified

SDKs

Official and community client libraries that wrap African provider APIs, by language.

Browse 16 verified

Open Source

Open-source projects powering African fintech, health, civic-tech, gov-tech and NLP.

Browse 17 verified

Research

Papers, benchmarks, standards and reference architectures for African digital infrastructure.

Browse

Built for everyone shipping in Africa

One source of truth, four very different readers.

Developers

Find the payment, KYC or data API you need, and see if its docs actually work before you integrate.

Foreign founders

Understand the rails, payments, identity, licensing, before committing to an African market.

Investors

A live map of the stack: what exists, what's licensed, and where the white space is.

AI agents

Query the open JSON API and reason over clean, structured, machine-readable data.

More than a directory

The surfaces built on top of the registry. Scroll through, or drag.

01 · Graph

The relationship graph

Every API, MCP server, dataset and tool, mapped by how they connect. 477 nodes, 54 edges.

Open 02 · Verification

Status changes

A public feed of every docs-status flip our checks detect: what went dark, what redirected, what came back.

Open 03 · Intelligence

Wycord Intelligence

Indexes and analysis computed from the registry itself, the state of African infrastructure, measured.

Open 04 · Coverage

Country coverage

Nigeria verified deepest today, with pan-African providers mapped and more countries on the way.

Open 05 · Directory

The companies behind it

The processors, identity providers, telcos and data companies behind it. 149 organisations.

Open 06 · Signals

News & trends

What changed in African developer infrastructure, new resources, updates and shifts, with sources.

Open

Machine-readable, not just browsable

The same registry humans read, agents can query. No scraping, no guessing.

Every resource carries its live status, licensing flag and last-verified date. Half of Africa's “available” infrastructure is a graveyard, docs that 403, endpoints that 502, companies that quietly shut down. Wycord checks, so you find out before you integrate, not after.

Open JSON API, no key required to read
An MCP server, so agents can call the registry directly
llms.txt + OpenAPI, machine-readable by default

Read the API spec

curl "https://wycord.com/api/resources?category=apis&country=NG"
 
{
  "count": 105,
  "results": [
    {
      "name": "Paystack",
      "category": "API",
      "country": "NG",
      "docs_status": "LIVE",
      "licensing_required": "NONE",
      "last_verified": "2026-07-11"
    },
    {
      "name": "GIGL Logistics",
      "category": "API",
      "country": "NG",
      "docs_status": "BROKEN",
      "licensing_required": "APPROVAL",
      "last_verified": "2026-07-11"
    }
  ]
}

Live against the registry

Plug the African stack into any model

A model in San Francisco cannot find African infrastructure, and cannot tell what still works. Wycord is the layer in between.

Any model, anywhere

Claude
OpenAI
Gemini
Vertex AI
Cursor
LangChain

Speaks MCP, or plain HTTP.

Wycord

MCP · REST · llms.txt

477 verified · 9 categories

African infrastructure

Paystack
Smile ID
Flutterwave
NiMet
GIGL
Mono

Status-verified, licensing flagged.

One MCP server and one open REST API, backed by a registry where every entry has been checked. Point Claude, GPT, Gemini or any agent framework at it and the whole African stack becomes callable, with its live status and licensing attached, so the model knows what it can actually use.

search_resources, get_resource, list_categories, list_countries
Works over MCP, or plain HTTP if the model has no MCP client
No key required to read. CORS open. llms.txt for anything else

The MCP endpoint

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wycord": {
      "url": "https://wycord.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
 
> Which Nigerian KYC providers are licensed and live?
 
search_resources({ category: "apis", country: "NG", query: "KYC" })
 
2 of 4 verified LIVE, licence required:
  Smile ID     docs LIVE     licensing NONE
  Prembly      docs LIVE     licensing APPROVAL

Real config. The server exposes these tools today.

Add Wycord to your AI assistant

Wycord runs as a remote MCP server. Connect it once and your assistant can search verified African infrastructure directly.

Claude

Open Customize, then Connectors. Choose Add custom connector, paste the URL and click Add.

https://wycord.com/api/mcp

Claude Code

Run one command in your terminal.

claude mcp add --transport http wycord https://wycord.com/api/mcp

ChatGPT

Turn on Developer mode, then create a custom connector with this URL. Availability depends on your plan.

https://wycord.com/api/mcp

Cursor and other MCP clients

Add Wycord as a remote server in your MCP config.

{ "mcpServers": { "wycord": { "url": "https://wycord.com/api/mcp" } } }

Official Wycord listings in the Claude and ChatGPT directories are in progress. Until then these steps work in any client that supports remote MCP servers. See the docs, the server card and the agent skill.

Featured resources

Hand-picked, verified, battle-tested by Nigerian builders.

Flutterwave

APIs

Pan-African payment processor with the broadest SDK coverage (13 languages) and international remittance support. Acquired Mono in Jan 2026.

Featured

Docs live

Payments

Verified Oct 2026~1.5% domestic / transaction

GDP/CPI time-series (World Bank API)

Datasets

Free, no-auth JSON API for Nigerian macro time-series: GDP, CPI inflation, FDI, remittances, employment and more. The best developer-accessible source for Nigerian economic data.

Featured

Docs live

Economic

Verified Oct 2026Free (no auth)

LGA Boundaries (GRID3)

Datasets

Authoritative, OSGOF-backed LGA boundary polygons for all 36 states plus FCT (Dec 2020) in GeoJSON/SHP, no auth required.

Featured

Docs live

Geographic

Verified Oct 2026Free

M-Pesa Daraja (Safaricom)

APIs

Safaricom's official Daraja 3.0 developer portal exposing the M-Pesa APIs (STK Push/Lipa Na M-Pesa, C2B, B2C, B2B, transaction status, account balance) for Kenya, the largest mobile-money network in Africa. Requires a registered developer account with sandbox testing before live credentials.

Mono

APIs

Open-banking data-access provider for account, identity and transaction data, with KYB tooling. Acquired by Flutterwave in Jan 2026 but still operates independently. Ships a dev sandbox Docker image.

NaijaML

Production-ready NLP library (v0.2.1, Mar 2026) covering all 4 Nigerian languages, running in 4GB RAM with no GPU, with PII masking for NIN/phone. The most practical Nigerian AI resource for developers.

Featured

Docs live

Libraries

Verified Oct 2026Open-source (Apache 2.0)

Latest from the blog

Guides to the African APIs and infrastructure behind the registry.

9 Oct 2026

Building for Rwanda: the verified developer stack

Rwanda has 8 verified resources in the Wycord registry spanning payments, language AI, developer utilities, and agriculture data. Here is what each does and how to choose.

Read 8 Oct 2026

Accept payments in Francophone West Africa: API options

The FCFA zone runs on Wave, Orange Money, and operators that differ by country. This guide covers the verified payment APIs that aggregate them, so you can collect and disburse across Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, and beyond with a single integration.

Read 6 Oct 2026

Building for Tanzania: the verified developer stack

Tanzania has a rich but fragmented payment and infrastructure landscape. Here is what actually exists in the Wycord registry and how to choose between providers.

Read 5 Oct 2026

Building for Egypt: the verified developer stack

The Wycord registry indexes 9 resources for Egypt covering payments, agentic workflows, identity validation, geospatial data, and Arabic-language AI. This is the full map.

Read 1 Oct 2026

Building for Nigeria: the stack beyond payments

Nigeria has 210 verified developer resources in the Wycord registry. This guide maps the layers beyond payments and KYC: 17 AI and speech tools, 29 MCP servers including data analytics and government infrastructure, 33 datasets with deep geospatial coverage, and specialized APIs for agriculture, healthcare, and weather.

Read 29 Sept 2026

Building for South Africa: the complete verified stack

The Wycord registry lists 25 resources for South Africa across payments, identity, AI models, language tools, and MCP servers. This guide organises them by use case and covers what makes the South African developer stack different.

Read

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Questions, answered

What Wycord is, and how it works.

What is Wycord?

A status-verified hub to find the APIs, MCP servers, datasets, developer tools and AI agent skills you need to build AI products in Africa, readable by humans, queryable by agents.

Which countries does Wycord cover?

Nigeria is live and deeply verified today. More African countries are rolling out, the brand and data model are built pan-African from day one.

What does “status-verified” mean?

Every resource's docs, licensing and live status are actually checked, not just listed. We link to official sources and flag what's broken, parked or licensed.

Is there an API for AI agents?

Yes. Every resource is exposed over a clean, CORS-open JSON API, so agents can query the registry and reason over clean, structured data, no scraping.

How is this different from an API directory?

Most directories are APIs-only. Wycord spans APIs, MCP servers, datasets, tools and AI skills, maps the relationships between them, and stays machine-readable.

How do I add or update a resource?

Submit it from the Submit page. Verified entries are added to the registry; updates and corrections are welcome.

Machine-readable by design.

Every resource is exposed over a clean, CORS-open JSON API. Point your agent at it and let it reason over the African stack, no scraping, no guesswork.

View the API

GET /api/resources

$ curl wycord.com/api/resources?q=payment

{
  "count": 11,
  "resources": [
    { "name": "Paystack",
      "docs_status": "LIVE",
      "licensing": "NONE" }, …
  ]
}