I Gave Claude Access to Data on All 54 African Countries. Here's How.

African data is hard to find, scattered across dozens of sources, and painful to work with. World Bank CSVs. UN PDF reports. Central bank websites that haven't been updated since 2019. I built an MCP server that fixes this. One npx command, and Claude can pull live data on any African country -- GDP, elections, trade flows, stock markets, government officials, policy timelines, all of it. Here's how to set it up and what you can do with it. What is MCP? Model Context Protocol lets you give Claude new capabilities by connecting external tools. Instead of pasting data into your prompt, Claude calls the tools directly and gets structured responses. The Africa API MCP server exposes 40 tools across 9 domains. Claude picks the right tool based on your question, calls the API, and reasons over the results. Setup (2 minutes) 1. Get an API key Sign up at africa-api.com and grab a key from your dashboard. 2. Connect to Claude Claude Desktop -- add this to your config file: ~/Library/Application