Africa Data Bank

io.github.Africa-Data-BankPublished by GitHub account Africa-Data-Bankv1.0.1Updated Oct 24, 2026

Trusted African data, provenance, citations, and catalog search for AI agents.

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Identifier: io.github.Africa-Data-Bank/africadb
Transport: STDIO
Runtime: Desktop only
Trust: Verified
Published: Sep 16, 2026

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Overview

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Africa Data Bank gives AI assistants access to trusted African data, provenance, citations and catalog search through a local Docker-based MCP server.

What you can do: Search an African data catalog to find datasets and sources.
Retrieve African data with provenance and citation details for use in answers.
No individual tools are listed in the manifest, so exact operations are not documented here.
When to use it: Useful when an assistant needs African datasets or statistics and should cite sources with provenance rather than rely on general knowledge.
Requirements: Runs as a local process via the Docker image jmatrixjnr/afridb-mcp-server (stdio transport); desktop only. Requires an AfricaDB account and the AFRICADB_API_TOKEN API key. AFRICADB_API_URL can point to a different API base URL.

Before you install

Requires the AFRICADB_API_TOKEN secret, which grants access to your AfricaDB account. Free use is limited and paid plans raise quotas, so heavy use may involve cost. Only override AFRICADB_API_URL for a trusted self-hosted gateway, since queries and the token would go to that endpoint.

Installation

In SourceWeft

Open Africa Data Bank in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Desktop only via STDIO. STDIO servers start a local process, so they need the SourceWeft desktop host.

Other MCP clients

Follow the launch instructions in the repository.

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Version history

v1.0.1LatestSep 16, 2026

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