Africa's Talking

Founded by Samuel Gikandi in 2012

Send SMS, USSD, Voice, and Airtime via APIs across Africa

Cost

Pay as you go

Rating

★ People love it

Time to value

Quick Setup (< 1 hour)

You can use Africa's Talking to build mobile communication apps for African markets using APIs. It connects developers to telecom infrastructure for sending SMS, making voice calls, triggering USSD sessions, sending airtime, and distributing mobile data. You can build customer call centers, interactive voice response systems, text-based menus that work on any phone, and airtime reward programs. The APIs cover 80+ telco connections and 100% of African countries, letting you skip direct operator negotiations.

What Africa's Talking does

Send SMS messages to single or multiple recipients via APITrigger USSD sessions and handle user menu responsesMake and receive voice calls programmatically with custom call flowsSend airtime to a phone number with a specified amount and currencyDistribute mobile data bundles to users programmaticallySet up WhatsApp messaging flows with automated bot responsesTrack delivery reports and call logs via API callbacksTest APIs in a sandbox environment before going liveSMS API that sends text messages across African mobile networksUSSD API for building interactive menus on any mobile phone without internetVoice API for inbound and outbound calls with custom IVR flowsInstant airtime sending to any mobile number as micro-payments or rewardsMobile data distribution to reward users or cover data costsWhatsApp messaging with bot flows and rich media supportCoverage across 80+ telco connections in AfricaSDKs in multiple programming languages including Python

Tutorials & Demos

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Node.js

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