3.4.7 Africa's Talking
This section allows you to configure Africa's Talking as a data source and receive SMS messages as unstructured posts in your Ushahidi deployment.
Setup Africa's Talking Data Source in Ushahidi
Login to Ushahidi.

Click on Settings -> Data Sources
Click Add source

Select Africa's Talking

Enter your Username, API Key, and SMS Short Code, and then click Save.

Setup Ushahidi Callback in Africa's Talking
Login to Africa's Talking Dashboard and click on app

Click on SMS -> Callback URLs -> Incoming Messages
Enter the Ushahidi's callback URL and click Submit.
The URL is your deployment backend's API URL, ending with "/sms/africas-talking"
e.g. https://quakemap.api.ushahidi.io/sms/africas-talking

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