🇳🇬Nigeria

SabiYarn-125M is a 125M-parameter decoder-only foundation model pretrained on Nigerian-language text, the first in the SabiYarn series. It supports English, Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo and Nigerian Pidgin plus Fulfulde, Efik and Urhobo, with fine-tuned variants for translation, NER, sentiment and diacritization. It was built by Aletheia.ai Research Lab and presented at the AfricaNLP 2025 workshop.

[ingest-scout] Open-source African speech AI ecosystem from UBC's Deep Learning & NLP Lab: 5 ASR models covering 43 languages, 7 TTS models covering 7 languages, spoken language identification for 49 languages, and SimbaBench evaluation dataset. Introduced at EMNLP 2025 (paper: 'Voice of a Continent'); models hosted on HuggingFace under UBC-NLP. Confirmed live at github.com/UBC-NLP/simba with CC-BY-4.0 license. Distinct from african-whisper (ASR only), bibletts (TTS only), and spitch (commercial) already in registry.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[ingest-scout] 49 GB document-level pretraining corpus spanning 16 African languages (Yoruba, Amharic, Egyptian Arabic, Hausa, and others) plus English/French/Arabic/Portuguese, built by auditing mC4 and crawling verified news sources; fetched HuggingFace page and confirmed 239 monthly downloads, Apache 2.0 license, collection updated June 2025, and use as the training corpus for AfriTeVa V2. High-quality complement to Wycord's existing NLP datasets.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[ingest-scout] Python SDK and MCP server exposing Kenya civic data as AI tools: 47-county budget data (Controller of Budget), 13th Parliament records (MPs, bills, CDF allocations), SASRA SACCO registry, NDMA drought phases, and constitutional rights in English and Swahili. Installable via pip install civic-agent-kit; supports both MCP and A2A protocols. GitHub repo confirmed live with 63 commits. Complements wapimaji-mcp (already in registry) with a distinct civic/governance data layer for East Africa.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

Official Flutterwave React SDK that renders the Flutterwave payment modal inside React applications. It wraps the Flutterwave v3 checkout for collecting card, bank and mobile money payments across Africa. Published by Flutterwave on npm and maintained in the Flutterwave GitHub organization.

A Python package that returns Nigerian bank details including bank code, CBN code, name and USSD transfer code, with lookup functions by any of those fields. It packages the bank reference data behind a simple API rather than raw JSON. Published on PyPI as nigeria-banks.

A TypeScript library for validating Nigerian mobile numbers with alignment to NCC number-allocation rules, including per-operator prefix detection and normalisation. It targets regulated fintech use cases where incorrect validation carries business risk. Published on npm as nigerian-mobile-validator.

A .NET library that predicts the possible banks owning a given 10-digit Nigerian NUBAN account number and validates the account number against the Central Bank of Nigeria revised 2020 specification. It is useful for account-resolution flows where the issuing bank is unknown. Distributed as a C# package.

Actively maintained community Node.js and TypeScript SDK for the Paystack API, providing typed methods for transactions, subscriptions, transfers and verification. Published on npm and maintained on GitHub with nearly 50 stars. Paystack is a Nigerian payment gateway.

Actively maintained community Python wrapper for the Paystack API covering transactions, customers, transfers and subscriptions, with both sync and async clients. Published on PyPI and pushed to GitHub within the last day of verification. Paystack is a Nigerian payments company owned by Stripe.

Popular community React Native SDK that embeds Paystack checkout in mobile apps through a WebView component. Published on npm and maintained on GitHub with nearly 200 stars. It wraps Paystack, the Nigerian payment gateway, for iOS and Android applications.

Official Smile Identity server-side SDK for Python that wraps the Smile ID KYC, biometric and document verification APIs. It builds signatures and submits jobs to the Smile ID platform. Published on PyPI and maintained in the Smile Identity GitHub organization.

Official Smile Identity server-side SDK for Node.js that wraps the Smile ID KYC, biometric authentication and document verification APIs. It handles signature generation and job submission to the Smile ID platform. Published by Smile Identity on npm and pushed to GitHub the same day as verification.

Official Smile Identity Ruby gem wrapping the Smile ID identity verification, KYC and biometric APIs. It signs requests and submits verification jobs to the Smile ID platform. Distributed on RubyGems and maintained in the Smile Identity GitHub organization.

The official Smile Identity JavaScript and TypeScript SDK for building digital KYC, identity verification and document verification across Africa. It signs requests and calls Smile ID's verification and utility endpoints. Published on npm as smile-identity-core.

The official Smile Identity Python 3 SDK for African digital KYC, biometric identity verification and document verification. It handles request signing and calls to Smile ID's verification services. Distributed as an installable Python package.