How I Built an MCP Server for M-PESA — and Why It Matters for East Africa

Kenya's M-PESA processes $314 billion annually. 35 million users. And until recently, there was no way for an AI agent to interact with it natively. That changed when I built mpesa-mcp — a Model Context Protocol server that wraps the Daraja API and makes it directly available to Claude, GPT-4, and Gemini. What is MCP? Model Context Protocol (MCP) is Anthropic's open standard for connecting AI agents to external tools and data sources. Think of it like REST, but for AI agents — inste...