Africa's Talking

Africa's Talking is a pan-African communications platform that exposes a unified set of REST APIs for SMS, USSD, Voice, Airtime, Mobile Data, and Payments. Developers authenticate with an apiKey and username and reach mobile subscribers across Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, and other African markets through carrier integrations.

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APIs

Africa's Talking SMS API

Send single and bulk SMS, monetize content with premium SMS, manage premium subscriptions and checkout tokens, and fetch inbox messages via the messaging endpoint authenticated ...

Africa's Talking USSD API

Build interactive USSD menus driven by HTTP callbacks. Africa's Talking POSTs session state (sessionId, serviceCode, phoneNumber, text) to your callback URL and your response be...

Africa's Talking Voice API

Make outbound calls, transfer and queue calls, and upload media files. Incoming and outgoing calls trigger HTTP callbacks to which you respond with Voice XML actions such as Say...

Africa's Talking Airtime API

Programmatically distribute mobile airtime to one or many recipients across supported African carriers, with per-recipient currency, amount, and retry control.

Africa's Talking Mobile Data API

Disburse mobile data bundles in bulk to subscribers, specifying quantity, unit (MB or GB), and validity (Day, Week, or Month) per recipient against a registered payment product.

Africa's Talking Payments API

Collect and disburse money over mobile money rails, including mobile C2B checkout, B2C disbursement to customers, and B2B business-to-business transfers, with per-country curren...

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aid: africastalking
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/africastalking/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Africa's Talking
kind: company
description: Africa's Talking is a pan-African communications platform that exposes
  a unified set of REST APIs for SMS, USSD, Voice, Airtime, Mobile Data, and Payments.
  Developers authenticate with an apiKey and username and reach mobile subscribers
  across Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, and other African markets through
  carrier integrations.
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Communications
- SMS
- USSD
- Voice
- Airtime
- Mobile Data
- Payments
- Africa
created: '2026-06-20'
modified: '2026-06-20'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: africastalking:sms
  name: Africa's Talking SMS API
  tags:
  - SMS
  - Messaging
  - Bulk SMS
  - Premium SMS
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/sms/overview
  baseURL: https://api.africastalking.com/version1
  properties:
  - url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/sms/overview
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/sms/sending/bulk
    type: APIReference
  - url: openapi/africastalking-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: collections/africastalking.postman_collection.json
    type: PostmanCollection
  description: Send single and bulk SMS, monetize content with premium SMS, manage
    premium subscriptions and checkout tokens, and fetch inbox messages via the
    messaging endpoint authenticated with apiKey and username headers.
- aid: africastalking:ussd
  name: Africa's Talking USSD API
  tags:
  - USSD
  - Menu
  - Sessions
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/ussd/overview
  baseURL: https://api.africastalking.com/version1
  properties:
  - url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/ussd/overview
    type: Documentation
  - url: openapi/africastalking-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: collections/africastalking.postman_collection.json
    type: PostmanCollection
  description: Build interactive USSD menus driven by HTTP callbacks. Africa's Talking
    POSTs session state (sessionId, serviceCode, phoneNumber, text) to your
    callback URL and your response begins with CON to continue or END to terminate
    the session.
- aid: africastalking:voice
  name: Africa's Talking Voice API
  tags:
  - Voice
  - Call
  - IVR
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/voice/overview
  baseURL: https://voice.africastalking.com
  properties:
  - url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/voice/overview
    type: Documentation
  - url: openapi/africastalking-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: collections/africastalking.postman_collection.json
    type: PostmanCollection
  description: Make outbound calls, transfer and queue calls, and upload media files.
    Incoming and outgoing calls trigger HTTP callbacks to which you respond with
    Voice XML actions such as Say, Play, GetDigits, Dial, Record, and Enqueue.
- aid: africastalking:airtime
  name: Africa's Talking Airtime API
  tags:
  - Airtime
  - Top Up
  - Rewards
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/airtime/overview
  baseURL: https://api.africastalking.com/version1
  properties:
  - url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/airtime/overview
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/airtime/sending
    type: APIReference
  - url: openapi/africastalking-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: collections/africastalking.postman_collection.json
    type: PostmanCollection
  description: Programmatically distribute mobile airtime to one or many recipients
    across supported African carriers, with per-recipient currency, amount, and
    retry control.
- aid: africastalking:mobile-data
  name: Africa's Talking Mobile Data API
  tags:
  - Mobile Data
  - Bundles
  - Disbursement
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/data/overview
  baseURL: https://bundles.africastalking.com
  properties:
  - url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/data/overview
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/data/sending
    type: APIReference
  - url: openapi/africastalking-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: collections/africastalking.postman_collection.json
    type: PostmanCollection
  description: Disburse mobile data bundles in bulk to subscribers, specifying
    quantity, unit (MB or GB), and validity (Day, Week, or Month) per recipient
    against a registered payment product.
- aid: africastalking:payments
  name: Africa's Talking Payments API
  tags:
  - Payments
  - Mobile Money
  - B2C
  - B2B
  - Checkout
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/payments/overview
  baseURL: https://payments.africastalking.com
  properties:
  - url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/payments/overview
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://developers.africastalking.com/docs/payments/mobile_c2b/checkout
    type: APIReference
  - url: openapi/africastalking-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: collections/africastalking.postman_collection.json
    type: PostmanCollection
  description: Collect and disburse money over mobile money rails, including mobile
    C2B checkout, B2C disbursement to customers, and B2B business-to-business
    transfers, with per-country currency and metadata support.
common:
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/AfricasTalkingLtd
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/africa-s-talking
- type: Website
  url: https://africastalking.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developers.africastalking.com
- type: Plans
  url: plans/africastalking-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/africastalking-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/africastalking-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com