AfricArXiv is a community-led digital archive for African research. We provide a platform for African scientists to upload their working papers, preprints, accepted manuscripts (post-prints), and published papers to partner platforms and services we work with such as ScienceOpen, Open Science Framework, Zenodo, Figshare and PubPub. We thereby provide options to link data and code, and for article versioning. We have set out to deploy all currently available persistent identifier systems (ORCID, ROR, DOI, etc.) to design a platform that is state of the art and most possible/feasible interoperable in serving the African scholarly community and aloow for fruitful collaborations on a global scale to occur.