Kenya’s Fikra API brings AI inference to African developers, with M-Pesa built in

Kenya’s Fikra API has launched an AI inference API built specifically for African developers, startups and businesses. Founded by James Miano earlier this year, Fikra API is an OpenAI-compatible inference API targeting African developers, with M-Pesa payments built in and pricing set in local terms rather than U.S. Developers can send requests to Fikra’s endpoint and get responses from large language models, the same way they would with OpenAI or Anthropic, but with pricing, payment met