Mansa Markets

Mansa Markets is a pan-African capital markets intelligence platform that aggregates, normalises and serves live stock market data from across Africa's major exchanges. Built by Mansa Labs, with operations described as spanning Lagos and London, the platform positions itself as "The Terminal for African Capital Markets" — a single desk where investors, developers and institutions can track African equities, indices and market activity that has historically been fragmented across dozens of national exchanges and expensive institutional terminals. The company's core proposition is breadth and accessibility. According to its own materials, Mansa Markets covers 33 countries and 21 African stock exchange desks, with more than 1,000 listed stocks and 21 full quote feeds refreshed on a roughly 30-minute data cadence. Its coverage spans the continent's largest and most liquid markets — Nigeria's NGX, South Africa's JSE, Egypt's EGX, Morocco's Casablanca Stock Exchange, Ghana's GSE and the regional BRVM — alongside smaller exchanges such as Malawi's MSE, Rwanda's RSE, Zambia's LuSE, Uganda's USE and Zimbabwe's ZSE. The homepage presents exchange-level indices side by side, a daily tape of gainers, losers and most-active names, and a developer API for programmatic access. Beyond price data, Mansa Markets operates a corporate disclosures feed. Its disclosures page aggregates filings from African listed companies — annual reports, interim results, dividend notices, board meeting notifications, governance updates and prospectuses — with a stated total of 18,885 disclosures and coverage across 11 exchanges. This makes the platform useful not only to traders but also to analysts, journalists, compliance teams and fintech builders who need machine-readable African market and filing data. The brand is named after Mansa Musa, the 14th-century emperor of the Mali Empire, invoked by the company as a reminder that African capital creation is not a new idea. Mansa Markets frames its mission as democratising African market intelligence: the problem it identifies is that high-quality African capital markets data has long been the preserve of large institutions with Bloomberg or Reuters subscriptions, while retail investors in Lagos, fintech builders in Nairobi or diaspora investors in London face either no data or prohibitively expensive data. Mansa Markets' answer is aggregated, normalised data served through a clean terminal and an API that, in the company's words, any engineer can integrate in an afternoon — without enterprise contracts or six-figure licence fees. Mansa Markets is a private, venture-stage company rather than a listed entity, and it is best classified as a financial data and market infrastructure product brand within the capital markets segment. Its audience is explicitly threefold: investors tracking African stocks, developers building on African market data, and institutions requiring reliable pan-African coverage. The platform's public materials emphasise a multi-year build, with the problem identified in 2021 and research and architecture work across a dozen African exchanges in 2022, positioning Mansa Markets as infrastructure for the African growth story rather than a single-market data vendor.

Mansa Markets is a pan-African capital markets intelligence platform built by Mansa Labs, with operations described as spanning Lagos and London. The company's own account of its origins frames the project as a response to a structural gap in African financial data: high-quality, machine-readable African capital market data simply did not exist at a reasonable price point. According to the company's About page, the problem was identified in 2021. Working across African markets, the Mansa Labs team repeatedly encountered the same wall: global data providers such as Bloomberg and Refinitiv covered Africa as an afterthought, while local data vendors had no APIs. The result was that anyone wanting African market data — a retail investor in Lagos, a fintech builder in Nairobi, or a diaspora investor in London looking to buy Nigerian equities — faced either no data or data so expensive it was inaccessible. In 2022, the company moved into research and architecture, conducting deep research across 12 African stock exchanges and building relationships with market participants. This phase laid the groundwork for the aggregation and normalisation infrastructure that would become the Mansa Markets platform. The company describes the project as "years in the making," with the research phase focused on understanding the data structures, filing practices and market conventions of individual African exchanges so that they could be served through a single, consistent interface. The platform that emerged is positioned as "The Terminal for African Capital Markets." It aggregates live data across 33 countries and 21 African stock exchange desks, covering more than 1,000 listed stocks with 21 full quote feeds and a data cadence of roughly 30 minutes. The homepage presents exchange-level indices side by side — including Nigeria's NGX, Ghana's GSE, Morocco's CSE, South Africa's JSE, Malawi's MSE, Rwanda's RSE, the regional BRVM, Zambia's LuSE, Uganda's USE and Egypt's EGX — alongside a daily tape of gainers, losers and most-active stocks. A developer API provides programmatic access for engineers and institutions. A second pillar of the platform is corporate disclosures. Mansa Markets aggregates African listed-company filings — annual reports, interim results, abridged reports, prospectuses, dividend notices, AGM and board meeting notifications, governance updates and rights issues — into a searchable feed. Its disclosures page reports a total of 18,885 disclosures, coverage of 11 exchanges, and recent activity such as 241 filings in the last seven days, with annual reports and interim results forming the largest categories. This disclosure layer extends the platform's usefulness beyond trading to research, journalism, compliance and fintech development. The brand is named after Mansa Musa, the 14th-century emperor of the Mali Empire, described by the company as the wealthiest African in recorded history. The name is intended as a reminder that African capital creation is not a new idea, and it anchors the company's mission of democratising African market intelligence. Mansa Markets is a private, venture-stage company rather than a listed entity, and it markets itself to three audiences: investors tracking African stocks, developers building on African market data, and institutions requiring reliable pan-African coverage. Its stated ambition is to remove the enterprise contract and six-figure licence fee barriers that have historically kept African market data in the hands of a few large institutions.

• 2022

  Research and architecture phase begins, with deep research across 12 African stock exchanges and relationship building with market participants.

• 2021

  Mansa Labs identifies the problem: high-quality, machine-readable African capital market data does not exist at a reasonable price point.

• Mansa Markets platform launches as "The Terminal for African Capital Markets," covering 33 countries and 21 exchange desks with 1,000+ listed stocks.

• Corporate disclosures feed reaches 18,885 total disclosures across 11 exchanges, including annual reports, interim results, dividend notices and governance filings.

The Terminal for African Capital Markets — accessible, API-first pan-African market data and disclosures for investors, developers and institutions.

• Mansa Markets Terminal

  A web terminal presenting live African stock prices, exchange indices, gainers, losers and most-active stocks across 21 African exchange desks.

• Mansa Markets Developer API

  A developer API providing programmatic access to normalised African market data, designed to be integrated without enterprise contracts.

• African Corporate Disclosures

  A searchable feed of African listed-company filings including annual reports, interim results, prospectuses, dividend notices, AGM and board meeting notifications, and governance updates.

1. 1Mansa Markets, Live African Stock Market Data | NGX, GSE, JSE, EGXmansamarkets.com
2. 2About Mansa Marketsmansamarkets.com
3. 3African Corporate Disclosures | Mansa Marketsmansamarkets.com
4. 4Mansa Markets — Wikidatawikidata.org