PatrickAttankurugu/AfricaPEP

Open-source Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) database covering all 54 African countries. Built for KYC/AML compliance teams. Fuzzy name matching, Neo4j graph relationships, FastAPI, Docker. # AfricaPEP — African Politically Exposed Persons Database A production-grade, open-source PEP (Politically Exposed Persons) database covering **all 54 African Union member states**. Built for KYC/AML compliance teams who need reliable PEP screening without expensive third-party data subscriptions. **Live demo:** pep.patrickaiafrica.com |**Frontend repo:** africapep-frontend ## Why AfricaPEP? - **48,000+ verified PEP profiles** — Sourced from Wikidata's community-maintained, referenced database - **Complete African coverage** — All 54 AU member states - **Free and open source** — No licensing fees, no API quotas, no vendor lock-in - **Graph-powered** — Neo4j captures PEP relationships, family ties, and political networks - **Fuzzy matching** — pg_trgm + rapidfuzz catches name variations, transliterations, and misspellings - **FATF-compliant** — Tier 1/2/3 classification per FATF Recommendation 12 - **Full audit trail** — Every screening logged, every data point traceable to its source ## Data Source AfricaPEP pulls verified politician data from Wikidata, a free, collaborative knowledge base maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation. Every record in Wikidata is community-verified and linked to references (Wikipedia, government websites, news sources). The scraper queries Wikidata's public SPARQL endpoint for all persons who hold or held political positions in African countries. This includes: - Presidents, Vice Presidents, Prime Ministers - Cabinet Ministers and Deputy Ministers - Members of Parliament and Senate - Judges (Supreme Court, Constitutional Court, Appeals Court) - Governors, Regional Commissioners - Central Bank officials - Military and intelligence leadership - Electoral commission members - Heads of state-owned enterprises - Ambassadors - Political party leaders **Re-seeding pulls fresh data** — run `python -m africapep.database.seed` anytime to get the latest from Wikidata. Wikidata is currently the sole data source, queried through one …