Gabriel Mahia

Kenyan diaspora engineer building decision infrastructure for East Africa: M-PESA tooling, civic accountability, drought and flood data. 33 MCP servers on the official MCP Registry.

Joined on Mar 10, 2026 https://gabrielmahia.github.io/

Gabriel Mahia

Oct 26

Swahili Has 200 Million Speakers. Here Is Why AI Gets It Wrong.

#nlp #africa #swahili #ai

2 min read

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Gabriel Mahia

Oct 12

Building a Coordination Layer When Nobody Else Is

#mcp #africa #coordination #python

2 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Sep 28

Why East Africa's Public Domain Agricultural Data Is the Most Underused AI Asset in the Region

#africa #agriculture #ai #datasets

2 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Sep 14

How Satellite Data Closes the Insurance Gap for Kenya's Smallholder Farmers

#python #africa #insurance #mcp

1 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Sep 1

East Africa's AI Coordination Tools Don't Talk to Each Other. This Is the Missing Layer.

#mcp #africa #python #coordination

2 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Aug 11

The Agricultural Data Africa Needs Already Exists. It's Just 100 Years Old.

#ai #africa #opendata #agriculture

3 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Aug 3

Building Coordination Infrastructure: What 32 MCP Servers Without a Bus Look Like

#mcp #africa #coordination #python

2 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jul 31

MCP, A2A, and Google ADK for East Africa: What the Coordination Stack Looks Like

#mcp #ai #africa #python

2 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jul 28

Build Your First East Africa MCP Server in 30 Minutes

#mcp #python #tutorial #africa

3 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jul 25

Constitutional Rights in Swahili: Building a Multi-Agent Debate System

#civictech #africa #ai #swahili

2 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jul 22

The Swahili Data Gap: Why AI Lags in Swahili, and What the Research Actually Shows

#nlp #africa #ai #swahili

3 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jul 19

3,000 Patients Per Worker: Can AI Support Kenya's Community Health Workers?

#health #africa #python #ai

3 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jul 16

Reputation Portability: The Missing Infrastructure for Economic Mobility

#africa #labor #python #mcp

2 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jul 13

Parametric Insurance: When Satellite Data Replaces the Claims Adjuster

#africa #insurance #python #mcp

2 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jul 10

The Information Asymmetry That Costs East African Farmers Billions

#agriculture #africa #python #mcp

2 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jul 6

Building parametric crop insurance with wapimaji-mcp and bima-mcp

#insurance #mcp #africa #climate

2 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jul 3

What Happens When a Drought Signal Doesn't Go Anywhere

#mcp #africa #python #drought

2 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jul 3

Building an Alternative Credit Score from M-PESA Behavioral Data

#fintech #africa #python #mcp

2 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jul 2

How I'm Building MCP Servers for a Language Claude Doesn't Know Well

#ai #swahili #mcp #africa

2 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jul 1

What Claude Sonnet 5 Means for AI Infrastructure in East Africa

#ai #africa #mcp #claude

2 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jun 30

Why East Africa Needs Coordination Infrastructure, Not Just AI Apps

#africa #architecture #opensource #mcp

3 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jun 29

Africa's MCP Servers Mostly Don't Exist Yet. Here's What Listing One Looks Like.

#mcp #mpesa #africa #achievement

2 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jun 25

The 7-Server Stack: How East Africa's Coordination Infrastructure Works Together

#mcp #africa #coordination #fintech

2 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jun 22

Introducing kazi-mcp: Labor Market Coordination for Kenya's 15 Million Informal Workers

#mcp #kenya #africa #ai

2 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jun 22

Africa Is Not Behind. It's Building on Better Rails.

#africa #ai #mcp #geopolitics

3 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jun 21

Build Rails, Not Trains: A Framework for AI Infrastructure in the Global South

#mcp #ai #africa #architecture

4 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jun 19

Why 'Offline-First AI' Is No Longer Optional for the Global South

#mcp #ai #opensource #africa

3 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jun 17

31 MCP Servers for Africa — and Why the Rest of the World Should Care

#africa #mcp #infrastructure #coordination

3 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jun 17

kra-mcp: Kenya Revenue Authority Tax Compliance via MCP

#mcp #kenya #tax #africa

1 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jun 17

What MCP, A2A, and Google ADK Actually Unlock for African Coordination Infrastructure

#mcp #ai #africa #python

2 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jun 15

faida-mcp: Kenya Capital Markets via AI Agents

#mcp #kenya #investing #africa

1 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jun 13

The Loop That Creates Civilization Infrastructure

#architecture #africa #ai #mcp

3 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jun 13

300 AI Agents Just Showed Up for East Africa. The Tool Layer Was Already Ready.

#mcp #africa #ai #infrastructure

5 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jun 13

The East Africa Coordination Mafia: Why 23 MCPs Are a Platform, Not Just Tools

#mcp #africa #opensource #infrastructure

3 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jun 9

How to Publish an MCP Server to PyPI — Two Methods (Token vs OIDC)

#mcp #python #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jun 9

4 New MCP Servers Closing East Africa's Coordination Gap

#africa #mcp #fintech #opensource

3 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jun 9

18 Coordination Technologies Africa Can Now Build with AI

#africa #mcp #ai #coordination

5 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jun 8

Insurance as Coordination Technology: Closing East Africa's Structural Gap with AI

#africa #insurance #mcp #fintech

3 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jun 7

5 arXiv-Backed AI Implementations for Africa — and Why They Matter Now

#africa #ai #mcp #research

5 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jun 5

Building Secure AI Infrastructure for Africa: OWASP MCP Top 10 in Practice

#mcp #security #africa #ai

4 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jun 4

Why Swahili AI Lags English, and How We're Working on It

#nlp #machinelearning #africa #opensource

3 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jun 4

Africa on All Three AI Agent Protocols: MCP, A2A, and ADK

#africa #mcp #agents #architecture

2 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Jun 4

M-PESA Was Missing From the AI Agent Ecosystem — an MCP Server Closes the Gap

#africa #mcp #mpesa #fintech

3 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Mar 24

6 weeks later: mpesa-mcp is on the official MCP Registry — here's what I learned

#africa #kenya #mcp #mpesa

3 min read

Gabriel Mahia

Mar 10

Why M-Pesa, Africa's Talking, and USSD are missing from AI agent tooling — and what I did about it

#kenya #python #mcp #africa

3 min read

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