MCP Server

Africa Data Bank MCP Server

Name: Africa Data Bank MCP Server
Author: io.github.Africa-Data-Bank

io.github.Africa-Data-Bank/africadb

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What is the Africa Data Bank MCP server?

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

How to install Africa Data Bank

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.

Environment / auth

AFRICADB_API_TOKEN
required
secret
API key from a registered AfricaDB account. Free use is limited; paid plans raise quotas.
AFRICADB_API_URL
AfricaDB API base URL. Override only for a trusted self-hosted gateway.

Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "africadb": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "docker.io/jmatrixjnr/afridb-mcp-server:1.0.1"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AFRICADB_API_TOKEN": "<YOUR_AFRICADB_API_TOKEN>",
        "AFRICADB_API_URL": "<YOUR_AFRICADB_API_URL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "africadb": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "docker.io/jmatrixjnr/afridb-mcp-server:1.0.1"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AFRICADB_API_TOKEN": "<YOUR_AFRICADB_API_TOKEN>",
        "AFRICADB_API_URL": "<YOUR_AFRICADB_API_URL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "africadb": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "docker.io/jmatrixjnr/afridb-mcp-server:1.0.1"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AFRICADB_API_TOKEN": "<YOUR_AFRICADB_API_TOKEN>",
        "AFRICADB_API_URL": "<YOUR_AFRICADB_API_URL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "africadb": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "docker.io/jmatrixjnr/afridb-mcp-server:1.0.1"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AFRICADB_API_TOKEN": "<YOUR_AFRICADB_API_TOKEN>",
        "AFRICADB_API_URL": "<YOUR_AFRICADB_API_URL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add africadb --env AFRICADB_API_TOKEN=<YOUR_AFRICADB_API_TOKEN> --env AFRICADB_API_URL=<YOUR_AFRICADB_API_URL> -- docker run -i --rm docker.io/jmatrixjnr/afridb-mcp-server:1.0.1