Sales region

Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa plus North Africa — Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Egypt, Ghana, etc.

38 providers 222 APIs

Africa on the APIs.io network surfaces 38 providers mapped to this sales region — together publishing 222 indexed APIs.

Notable providers include Paystack, dLocal, Moniepoint, Cellulant, Flutterwave, Paymob, and 32 more — each profile links out to that provider’s APIs, schemas, and governance artifacts.

Related regions by shared providers: Middle East, Latin America, India & South Asia, and United Kingdom & Ireland. Browse every sales region at regions.apis.io.

Region mapping is derived from provider tags and provider-name pattern matching — it surfaces what is explicitly signalled in the structured data and intentionally does not infer further. Many providers operate across multiple regions; cross-listings are expected.

About this region

APIs from Africa — Sub-Saharan Africa plus North Africa. A region where mobile-money APIs (M-Pesa, MTN MoMo) have leapfrogged card rails entirely and where fintech, agritech, and logistics APIs dominate.

Providers (38)

Provider	Description	APIs	Rating
Paystack	Paystack is an African payment processor (acquired by Stripe in 2020) that lets businesses accept payments in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, Côte d'Ivoire, and Egypt acros...	14	exemplar
dLocal	dLocal (NASDAQ: DLO) is a Uruguay-headquartered emerging-markets payment infrastructure platform connecting global merchants with billions of consumers across 60+ countries in L...	9	strong
Moniepoint	Moniepoint is Africa's all-in-one financial platform for small and medium-sized businesses and individuals — Nigeria's largest merchant acquirer, with about 10 million business ...	14	strong
Cellulant	Cellulant is a pan-African payments platform headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, operating across 35 African countries. Its flagship product Tingg is a single API that lets busines...	3	strong
Flutterwave	Flutterwave is a pan-African payment infrastructure company providing the rails for businesses to accept, send, and manage money across Africa and globally. The Flutterwave for ...	6	developing
Paymob	Paymob is a Cairo-headquartered, licensed payment infrastructure provider for the MENAP region. Serving roughly 390,000 merchants across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emi...	5	developing
Interswitch	Interswitch is Nigeria's foundational digital payments and transaction-switching company, founded in 2002 and regulated by the Central Bank of Nigeria. It owns the Verve card sc...	12	developing
MetaMap	MetaMap (formerly Mati) is an identity verification platform founded in 2017 in San Francisco and headquartered there, serving 600+ companies across 50+ countries with a focus o...	1	developing
University of the Witwatersrand	The University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) is a leading public research university in Johannesburg, South Africa, ranked #268 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Wits does...	3	developing
US African Development Foundation	The US African Development Foundation (USADF) is an independent federal agency established by Congress in 1980 to invest directly in African grassroots enterprises and social en...	2	thin
Bamboo Invest	Bamboo is an African investment platform providing REST APIs for fractional stock investing, dollar investments, portfolio management, and access to US and Nigerian capital mark...	1	thin
dLocal	dLocal is an emerging markets payment platform that enables global merchants to accept and disburse local payment methods and currencies through a single REST API. The platform ...	4	thin
Stitch	Stitch is an open banking and payments API platform providing unified access to financial data and payment rails across banks and financial institutions in Africa, primarily Sou...	7	thin
Mono	Mono is an open banking and financial data infrastructure company for Africa (often described as the "Plaid for Africa"), headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria and now part of Flutter...	6	thin
Mono	Mono is an African open-banking platform that lets businesses access bank and financial data and collect recurring payments through a single API. The Mono REST API at api.withmo...	7	thin
OPay	OPay is a Nigerian mobile money and fintech super-app operated by Blue Ridge Microfinance Bank (OPay Digital Services Limited) and majority-owned by Opera Limited with backing f...	1	thin
PayFast	South African payment gateway providing REST APIs for online payment processing, subscription billing, tokenized recurring card payments, onsite checkout, QR code payments, inst...	6	thin
Kora	Kora (formerly Korapay) is a pan-African payments infrastructure company that lets businesses collect payments, disburse payouts, run settlements, issue cards, verify identities...	7	thin
Payflex	Payflex is a South African Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) platform that enables merchants to offer interest-free installment payment options to consumers. Shoppers can split purchases...	1	thin
Okra	Okra was an open finance / open banking infrastructure company for Africa, headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria. Its REST APIs let businesses link end users' bank accounts (via the O...	12	thin
Okra	Okra was an African open-finance / open-banking infrastructure company based in Lagos, Nigeria. Its REST API connected applications to Nigerian bank accounts to retrieve authent...	6	thin
Yoco	Yoco is a South African fintech providing card acceptance and payments infrastructure for small and medium businesses - card machines, point of sale, and online payments. Its de...	5	thin
Stitch	Stitch is a South African payments and open-banking infrastructure company. Its single GraphQL API at https://api.stitch.money/graphql powers Pay By Bank (instant EFT) and LinkP...	6	thin
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 authentica...	6	thin
Geidea	Geidea is a Saudi-headquartered fintech and payments platform serving merchants across the MENA region (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the UAE). Its Payment Gateway lets merchants acc...	6	thin
University of Cape Town	The University of Cape Town (UCT) is South Africa's leading public research university, ranked #96 in the QS World University Rankings 2025 and the highest-ranked university on ...	3	thin
Fincra	Fincra is an African cross-border payments infrastructure provider whose REST API lets businesses collect, hold, convert, and disburse money across multiple currencies. The plat...	8	thin
Cardtonic	Cardtonic is an Africa-focused fintech platform that lets users trade gift cards (sell unused cards for cash and buy over 14,000 local and international gift cards), issue virtu...	3	thin
Chimoney	Chimoney is a developer-first global payouts and disbursement platform with deep coverage across Africa and 130+ countries. Its REST API sends money to bank accounts, mobile mon...	8	thin
Fawry	Fawry is Cairo-based Egypt's leading provider of e-payments and digital finance solutions, operating a nationwide network for card, e-wallet, and cash-based bill, merchant, gove...	1	thin
TranZak	TranZak is an African fintech platform headquartered in Douala, Cameroon, providing REST APIs for mobile money collections, merchant payments, bulk disbursements, bill payments,...	4	minimal
Wave Mobile Money	Wave is a Dakar, Senegal-headquartered mobile money company on a mission to "make Africa the first cashless continent." Founded by Drew Durbin and Lincoln Quirk (who previously ...	5	minimal
Cowrywise	Cowrywise is a Nigerian wealth management platform and SEC-licensed fund manager offering savings plans, investment portfolios, dollar accounts, and financial goal tracking for ...	1	minimal
PiggyVest	PiggyVest is a Lagos-based Nigerian fintech (operated by Piggytech Global Limited, RC 1405222) running the country's largest online savings and investment platform, with 6M+ reg...	1	minimal
Takealot	Takealot is South Africa's largest online retailer and the flagship brand of the Takealot Group, a Cape Town-headquartered e-commerce holding company that is majority-owned (app...	1	minimal
Vodafone	Vodafone Group plc is a UK-headquartered (Newbury, England) multinational telecommunications company and one of the world's largest mobile and fixed network operators, with oper...	27	minimal
Ethiopia Open Data	Ethiopia Open Data is a national government open-data portal for Ethiopia running CKAN. It exposes the CKAN catalog API over approximately 3 datasets.	1	minimal
Onafriq	Onafriq (formerly MFS Africa) is a pan-African digital payments network headquartered in London with operating entities across Mauritius, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ugand...	9	minimal

APIs in this region (222)

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Related regions

Mapped via tag aliases (Africa, African, South Africa, Nigeria, Nigerian, Kenya, Kenyan, Egypt …) and provider-name patterns (Africa, African, Nigeria, Nigerian, Kenya, Kenyan, Egypt, Egyptian …).

Africa

About this region

Providers (38)

APIs in this region (222)

Africa's Talking Airtime API

Africa's Talking Mobile Data API

Africa's Talking Payments API

Africa's Talking SMS API

Africa's Talking USSD API

Africa's Talking Voice API

Bamboo Investment API

Cardtonic Bill Payments

Cardtonic Gift Card Developer API

Cardtonic Virtual Dollar Card

Cellulant Tingg Checkout API

Cellulant Tingg Engage API

Cellulant Tingg Payouts API

Chimoney Accounts API

Chimoney Info API

Chimoney Multicurrency Wallets API

Chimoney Payments API

Chimoney Payouts API

Chimoney Redeem API

Chimoney Sub-Accounts API

Chimoney Wallets API

Cowrywise Embed API

Ethiopia Open Data CKAN Action API

FawryPay Server API

Fincra Banks & Account Resolution API

Fincra Beneficiaries API

Fincra Collections API

Fincra Conversions / FX API

Fincra Payouts / Disbursements API

Fincra Quotes API

Fincra Virtual Accounts API

Fincra Webhooks

Flutterwave Banks API

Flutterwave Payments API

Flutterwave Settlements API

Flutterwave Transfers API

Flutterwave Wallets API

Flutterwave Webhooks API

Geidea Checkout API

Geidea Direct API

Geidea Pay by Invoice API

Geidea Pay by Link API

Geidea Tokenization API

Geidea Transaction Management API

Interswitch Airtime Recharge API

Interswitch Bills Payment API

Interswitch Card 360 API

Interswitch Customer Insights API

Interswitch Lending API

Interswitch Paycode API

Interswitch Payment Gateway API

Interswitch Recurring Payments API

Interswitch Refunds API

Interswitch Transaction Search API

Interswitch Transfers API

Interswitch Web Checkout API

Kora Balances API

Kora Charges API

Kora Currency Conversion API

Kora Misc Utilities API

Kora Payouts API

Kora Refunds API

Kora Virtual Bank Accounts API

MetaMap API

Moniepoint POS Push Payment API

Monnify Authentication API

Monnify Bills Payment API

Monnify Collections API

Monnify Direct Debit API

Monnify Disbursements API

Monnify Invoices API

Monnify Refunds API

Monnify Reserved Accounts API

Monnify Settlements API

Monnify Sub-Accounts API

Monnify Verification API