Introducing the Mansa Macro Suite: African central bank rates and inflation, by API

Ask any analyst covering Africa what data they struggle to get, and the answer is rarely stock prices — it's macro. What did the central bank decide last week? What was inflation last month? The World Bank and IMF publish excellent series that lag by months. The central banks publish same-day, but across dozens of websites, PDFs, and press releases in four languages.

Today we're launching the Mansa Macro Suite: policy rates and headline inflation for 18 African economies behind one endpoint, with the source institution and source URL attached to every single number.

One call, the whole continent

curl https://mansaapi.com/api/v1/macro/policy-rates \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer mansa_live_sk_..."

# No key? See it now:
curl https://mansaapi.com/api/demo/policy-rates

Coverage at launch: Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Zambia, Angola, Côte d'Ivoire (BCEAO zone-wide), Cameroon (BEAC zone-wide), Botswana, and Mozambique.

Nigeria runs deep — live from the CBN

Nigeria is served live from Central Bank of Nigeria statistics: the Monetary Policy Rate, treasury bill rate, interbank call rate, prime and max lending rates, plus headline, food, and core inflation. History goes back to January 2006 — 20 years of monthly data:

curl "https://mansaapi.com/api/v1/macro/NG/policy_rate/history?from=2006-01" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer mansa_live_sk_..."

# 243 monthly points, newest first:
# { "indicator": "policy_rate", "value": 26.5, "period": "2026-03",
#   "source_institution": "Central Bank of Nigeria",
#   "source_url": "https://www.cbn.gov.ng/rates/mnymktind.html" }

Provenance in the payload

Every datapoint carries source_institution, source_url, and the period it refers to. If your model, app, or research note cites a number from us, it can cite the central bank directly. Values for the 17 non-Nigerian economies are individually verified against official decisions and statistics releases, and re-verified after every rate decision and CPI print — the verification date ships in the response metadata.

What this unlocks

Pricing

The all-Africa policy-rates table and country indicators are on the free tier (100 requests/day, no card). Historical series start at Starter ($19/month). Pair it with yields and T-bill auctions on Professional for the full rates picture.

Get a key at mansaapi.com — it takes one request and zero emails.