🇳🇬Nigeria

Apache Fineract is an open-source core-banking engine for financial inclusion, providing the accounting, loan, savings and client APIs used to build microfinance and digital-lending systems. Written in Java, it is the technology behind the Mifos platform and is deployed by microfinance institutions and fintechs across Africa. It is Apache-2.0 licensed and very actively developed.

[ingest-scout] Cameroon-focused mobile money payment gateway API (launched January 2021 by Takwid Group) supporting MTN Mobile Money and Orange Money Cameroon. Python SDK on GitHub (CamPay/campay-python-sdk), Android SDK, Postman API docs, and WooCommerce plugin all confirmed live. Fills the gap as the domestic Cameroonian payment API — distinct from Notch Pay which is a multi-country aggregator.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

DHIS2 is a large open-source health information management system, written in Java, containing the service layer and web API. It is used as the national routine health information system by many African ministries of health for immunisation, disease surveillance and program reporting. It is developed by the HISP programme at the University of Oslo and released under BSD-3-Clause.

[ingest-scout] Rwanda-based NLP organization Digital Umuganda's Conformer-CTC ASR model trained on 660 hours of Kinyarwanda speech (Afrivoice dataset); last updated December 2 2025, 52 monthly downloads, CC-BY-4.0 license, built on NVIDIA NeMo. Distinct from the already-inventoried mbaza-whisper-small-kinyarwanda — this is a larger NeMo-based model; fills Rwanda AI infrastructure representation.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[ingest-scout] Rwanda-based fintech aggregator (Central Bank of Rwanda licensed PSP) connecting developers to telecom operators, banks, utilities, and government services across Rwanda, Malawi, and Zambia via a single REST API — covers mobile money, bulk SMS, USSD, airtime, utility payments, and tax remittances. Built since 2013 by Future Dynamic Innovations; processes 30B+ transactions annually. Developer portal confirmed live; Rwanda, Malawi, and Zambia are underrepresented in the registry.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[ingest-scout] Official developer portal for Telebirr, Ethio Telecom's mobile money platform serving 44M+ users in Ethiopia. Provides sandbox testing, API reference, sample code, video tutorials, and In-App SDK for integrating payments, STK push, and mandate-based transactions. Portal confirmed live at developer.ethiotelecom.et with Postman workspace also published. Ethiopia is a major gap in the registry — only Chapa (a third-party gateway) is currently listed.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[ingest-scout] Ethiopian language ASR model fine-tuned from Facebook w2v-bert-2.0 (600M params) on Amharic speech, achieving 22.37 WER on the WAXAL Amharic test set; paper published March 2026 (arXiv:2603.23654), dataset updated June 2026, 1.03k monthly downloads, CC-BY-4.0. Developed by the Ethio-ASR research team — a verified live model filling the Ethiopia AI gap in the registry.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[ingest-scout] Ugandan cross-border payments API covering 18 African markets including Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana, Tanzania, Rwanda, Côte d'Ivoire, South Africa, and Zambia, with mobile money + bank rails and stablecoin (USDC/USDT) funding. Full REST API docs live at eversend.readme.io with PHP SDK on GitHub and batch disbursement endpoint confirmed operational.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[ingest-scout] Open-access harmonized subnational crop statistics for 33 Sub-Saharan African countries from 1980–2022, containing 574,204 records across 94 crop types at Admin-1 and Admin-2 levels (area, production, yield). Published in Scientific Data 2025 (doi:10.1038/s41597-025-05001-z), GitHub repo confirmed live at v1.2. Critical food-security and agriculture dataset not yet in the registry.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

Indigenius is CDIAL AI's conversational and voice AI product line that understands and speaks African languages, offering a voice API, voice cloning and deployable AI agents. Its Indigenius Agent Pro service exposes AI agents and models through a playground for both developers and non-technical users, targeting communication in 180+ African languages such as Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo. It is built by CDIAL AI, which operates from Lagos, Nigeria.

API marketplace from Interswitch, one of Africa's largest digital payment infrastructure companies, exposing Quickteller and payment services for airtime, bill payments to 3000-plus billers, bank transfers, wallet and virtual card management. APIs are RESTful with JSON requests and require a developer console account with client credentials. Headquartered in Nigeria with pan-African reach.

Community MCP server that exposes Interswitch APIs (payments, transfers, VAS, cardless paycodes, Transaction Search, Card 360, lending, payouts, agency banking) to AI agents. Ships as the npm package interswitch-mcp-server and supports both Interswitch sandbox and production environments. Interswitch is one of Nigeria's largest payment processors, so this fills a gap not covered by the registry's Paystack and Flutterwave servers.

[ingest-scout] Kenya-focused mobile money collection API for M-Pesa STK Push, Buygoods, B2B transfers, payment links, and disbursements; fetched api-docs.kopokopo.com and confirmed live documentation with distinct sandbox (sandbox.kopokopo.com) and production endpoints. A major Kenyan developer tool absent from Wycord — complements Safaricom's raw Daraja API with a higher-level collection workflow.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

Lengo AI operates Sadio AI, a WhatsApp conversational assistant that lets informal African retailers track sales, monitor stock and benchmark prices in their local language, while crowdsourcing real-time retail data for FMCG brands. Founded in Senegal and now Lagos-based, Lengo pairs the AI assistant with field agents to make previously invisible corner-shop commerce measurable. Clients include global FMCG brands such as Nestle and Lactalis.

NaijaVoices is a large-scale speech dataset of about 1,800 hours from over 5,000 speakers with expert-curated transcripts in Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba, roughly 600 hours per language. It is designed for building ASR and speech AI for Nigerian languages and improves Whisper and MMS fine-tuning performance. It is available on HuggingFace behind a free registration and powers models like AfriHuBERT and SBPN.

[ingest-scout] Cameroon-founded pan-African payments platform with live Mobile Money APIs in Cameroon (MTN, Orange), Côte d'Ivoire (Wave), Senegal (Wave, Orange, Free), Kenya (M-Pesa), Uganda (Airtel), and Ghana (MTN). Developer portal confirmed live with Direct API, SDK, and no-code checkout — distinct from the PHP SDK (notchpay-php) already in the registry; this is the core API product itself.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[ingest-scout] Cameroon-headquartered payment gateway covering Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, and Senegal; accepts MTN Mobile Money, Orange Money, Mastercard, Visa, and bank transfers via RESTful API. Live developer docs confirmed at developer.notchpay.co with API reference updated January 2026, mobile money endpoint, SDKs for PHP/Node/JS, and sandbox. Fills a Francophone West Africa gap — the registry has notchpay-php (the PHP SDK) but not the platform API itself.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

ODK Collect is an open-source Android app for offline mobile data collection using XLSForm-based forms, written in Kotlin. It has been used to gather billions of data points and is a core field-data tool for African health, agriculture, election-monitoring and research programmes. It is Apache-2.0 licensed and actively maintained by the ODK community.

The Open Banking Nigeria API Standard is a RESTful specification for secure data sharing and payment initiation between Nigerian banks and third-party providers. It defines Registration, Meta Directory, Data-Inquiry (Open Data) and Payment API categories and is maintained by the Open Technology Foundation. It aligns with the Central Bank of Nigeria's open banking regulatory framework, for which the CBN issued Operational Guidelines in 2023.

[ingest-scout] Malawi's leading payment gateway API supporting mobile money (Airtel, TNM), bank transfers, and cards — the first instant bank-transfer API for Malawian merchants. Live developer docs confirmed at developer.paychangu.com with Inline/Standard checkout, disbursements, utility bill payments (Escom, DStv), and Python/Go SDKs on GitHub. Fills a complete gap: Malawi has no coverage in the registry.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[ingest-scout] Malawi's leading payment gateway, PSP-licensed by the Reserve Bank of Malawi in 2024; fetched developer.paychangu.com/docs/welcome and confirmed live documentation covering cards, mobile money, bank transfers, and Malawi-specific bills (Escom electricity, MRA taxes, DStv). Only Malawian payment infrastructure candidate — fills a geography Wycord has zero coverage of.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[ingest-scout] Malawi's leading payment gateway — first in the country to launch an instant bank-transfer API for merchants (July 2025). Supports mobile money, card, bank transfer, airtime, and utility bill payments (Escom, MASM) in MWK; Python, Go, and PHP SDKs on GitHub, WooCommerce plugin available. Live docs confirmed at developer.paychangu.com. Malawi is entirely absent from the current registry.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

Nigerian payments and collections platform (by SystemSpecs) whose Collections API lets billers generate a Remita Retrieval Reference (RRR), take payments across channels and check transaction status. Widely used for government and enterprise collections in Nigeria. Developer documentation and API assistant are published on its developer site.

SORMAS (Surveillance, Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System) is an open-source disease-surveillance and outbreak-management system written in Java. It was piloted and deployed for epidemic response in Nigeria and Ghana and is used by African public-health institutes to track infectious diseases. It is released under GPL-3.0.