Transforming research into real-world impact

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3,000+

Graduates Each Year

6

Zanzibar Universities

3

Approvals Before Publishing

25

Fellows a Year, Planned

Thousands of theses are written here. There is no way to find them.

Research is often never stored digitally. Physical copies are sometimes kept only temporarily, then discarded for space. Even where copies survive, anyone looking for them has to know to ask a specific university, rather than finding the work in one place.

And research occasionally happens to inform a government or institutional decision, but there is no systematic pathway from a finding to implementation. Wasomi Scholars exists to build that pathway.

How it works

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Our Work

A centralized, searchable home for Zanzibar's theses and projects.

The Repository is the core platform and the foundation the rest of our work builds on. Students upload completed theses and projects, supervisors approve them, our admin team gives final approval, and each work is tagged with metadata so it can be discovered and properly cited later.

On approval, the platform reads the abstract and key sections and identifies which stakeholders would be most interested. One click sends the research and a notification straight to them.

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Expandable to 10 to 20 institutions in future.

Impactful Research Delivered to Decision-Makers

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Securing the Future of Zanzibar's Intellectual Heritage.

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About Us

It started with a simple realisation.

Good research only matters if it can reach the people who can act on it.

While studying Sustainable Coastal Management in Finland, Wasomi’s CEO wanted his research on Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) to contribute to Zanzibar. He travelled back from Helsinki and found his way into an MSP scoping meeting attended by senior government officials and members of Zanzibar’s Revolutionary Council.

As the youngest person in the room, he almost stayed silent. But when the opportunity came, he shared his research and what Zanzibar could learn from Finland and Åland’s experience with MSP.

The response was encouraging. The meeting recommended that stakeholders learn from Åland’s experience, and that his completed thesis be submitted to the Ministry to inform future decisions.

That experience reinforced a simple lesson: important research should not have to wait for a title, senior position, or years of experience before it can matter. It needs a pathway from researchers to the institutions that can act on it.

Wasomi Scholars was born from that idea: to help researchers work on important problems, make their evidence accessible, and connect their research to real-world action.

Our Team

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Tell us what you are working on.

Have a thesis to submit, a partnership to propose, or a question about the repository? Write to us and a person will reply.