Sovereign computing for Africa's digital future.
Rooted in unity. Engineered for enterprise stability, sovereign digital infrastructure, and pan-African multilingual excellence — one system that speaks the languages its users think in.
Wazobia is the word Nigerians coined from three ways of saying come. The brandmark holds all three: twelve Adinkra-derived glyphs in emerald and ochre, converging on a single point of unity.
Sovereign Emerald #008751 — the green of the national flag, of rich natural biomes and agricultural strength, and of the rapid computational evolution running through the western tech corridor.
Savannah Ochre #FB8500 — golden Sahelian light, the trans-Saharan trading networks that carried goods and mathematics for a thousand years, and enduring artisan precision.
Delta Electric Teal #06D6A0 — the Niger-Benue confluence, commercial dynamism, and the decentralised enterprise instinct that builds a market before anyone grants permission.
Clear labels, keyboard input, spellcheck, and learning content for Hausa speakers across the Sahel.
Full tonal marks, Yoruba keyboard input, and typography that preserves meaning in every diacritic.
Igbo language tools for writing, teaching, and everyday desktop work with dependable Unicode support.
Language-aware text entry and cultural references for Ghanaian users and the wider Akan community.
Swahili-ready desktop tools for East African schools, homes, and public-service work.
Amharic text support and fonts that keep Ethiopian writing legible across documents and applications.
Every model ships in the image and runs locally by default. Nothing leaves the device unless you send it — which is what sovereignty means when the network is expensive and the data is yours.
Scheduling, reminders, drafting and recall — handled on-device, and fluent in the language you actually speak at home.
Symptom triage, medication schedules and wellness tracking that plugs into the clinic network you can actually reach.
Projects, events and goals laid out against the calendar people here live by, not the one the software shipped with.
Household and trader bookkeeping with the currencies, informal savings structures and inflation realities of the region.
Analytics for the small trader and the enterprise alike — built on data you hold, not data a platform rents back to you.
A patient teacher that adapts to the learner and switches language mid-sentence when that is how the classroom works.
LibreOffice ships with African-language input, spellcheck, dictionaries, and practical business templates.
Write notes, reports, and books with reliable Yorùbá tones and Hausa characters.
Handle budgets, pivot tables, and multi-currency records.
Build presentations with Wazobia templates and dependable exports.
Create diagrams, signage, and technical drawings with Adinkra motifs.
Build forms and reports with PostgreSQL and MySQL connectivity.
Prepare coursework and research with LaTeX and MathML support.
Every networked application in the default image is open source, encrypted where it matters, and tuned for intermittent connections and metered data.
The default browser, hardened with enhanced tracking protection and a data-saver profile for metered connections.
Mail, calendar and contacts in one place, with offline archives so a dropped link never costs you your inbox.
A native Matrix client for federated messaging — run your own homeserver and the conversation stays on your infrastructure.
Private messaging with the protocol everyone else copied, paired to the phone already in your pocket.
One window for the protocols that refuse to die: XMPP, IRC, SIP and everything the plugin ecosystem has kept alive.
The lightweight alternative for older hardware — reader mode, ad blocking and a footprint that suits a 4 GB machine.
A distribution built around identity has to carry more than a wallpaper. These six components are in active development for the 26.04 cycle; none of them ship in 24.04 yet.
2D and 3D tooling with rigs, palettes and motion libraries drawn from West African art traditions and folklore.
Curated African cinema, documentary and educational film with download-and-keep offline viewing for low-bandwidth homes.
A DAW preloaded with sampled talking drum, kora, udu and gòjé, plus the rhythm grids those instruments actually use.
A browsable archive of Adinkra, uli, nsibidi and àdìrẹ motifs, licensed for reuse and wired into Draw and Impress.
Recorded proverbs, folktales and oral histories with transcription, translation and a permanent local copy on the machine.
Walkthroughs of Benin City's walls, Sungbo's Eredo, Nok terracotta collections and museum holdings held overseas.
The education image adds classroom management, offline content caching and a curriculum pack, so a lab of refurbished machines becomes usable in an afternoon.
Classroom control, a self-hosted LMS, interactive whiteboard software and per-seat profiles that survive a wiped machine.
Arithmetic to calculus with GeoGebra, Maxima and a graphing suite mapped to the WAEC and NECO syllabuses.
Literacy programmes, keyboard layouts and translation tools across English, Hausa, Yorùbá and Igbo — in both directions.
Virtual labs and simulations for physics, chemistry and biology — the practicals a school can run without a stocked laboratory.
A full toolchain plus offline course material in Python, web development, data and Linux administration, with certification prep.
Zotero, LaTeX, R and the statistics stack, alongside a mirrored open-access repository that works when the campus link does not.
Wazobia is a genuine independent base rather than a reskin: the layers below stack in order, and each one is auditable on its own terms.
The universal OS base: full dpkg and APT compatibility, strict Free Software Guidelines compliance, and a signed chain of custody from build server to installed package.
The 6.8 HWE kernel with both proprietary and free GPU drivers, AppArmor profiles enforced by default, and a Wayland compositor that behaves on decade-old integrated graphics.
Offline localisation packs, the office and AI stack, and a desktop tuned for the hardware people already own.
The standard desktop edition is signed and mirrored across the four national sites. Verify the SHA-512 sum against the detached signature before you write it to a disk.
The full installation: WDE 4.2 on Wayland, the LibreOffice suite, the on-device AI stack and all four language packs — ready to write to a USB stick and boot.