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Prosper Theo
Founder & CTO
Leads Dichora's vision, product and engineering, designing and building the platform end to end.
Tools expire. A system remembers.
Dichora is the academic OS for African higher education. It connects every part of your degree into one working system.
Where the year breaks.
Every year, the same thing breaks in the same places. Your notes, scattered across chats that expire with the semester. Your results, arriving too late to change anything. Your documents, returned for the smallest formatting error. Your logbook, kept by hand, day by day, for months. One form between you and next year. None of this connects. You have been the system holding it together.
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Exam week. Your notes are scattered across group chats.
Getting into higher education is the exception. The years after were never the plan.
About 9 in every 100 young people in sub-Saharan Africa are enrolled in higher education. Across the world, it is 43. That gap is the beginning of the story.
9in 100
UNESCO, 2025
43in 100
UNESCO, 2025
Roughly 9 million students study in the region.
Getting in was never the hard part.
Dichora holds it together.
An operating system does not do one thing. It runs everything else. Dichora does that for your academic life, from matriculation and well past graduation.
Four pillars carry the student's academic life: their library, their standing, their workflows, and their career.
Four parts, one system.
Your Library
Resource Sovereignty
Your notes, past questions and lecture materials, kept in a private library that never resets. A separate community vault grows as students contribute, and every contributor is credited. Exam preparation draws on both, shaped by your own performance.
Your Standing
Academic Intelligence
Every course, assessment and grade, tracked as the semester runs. You see where you are heading before results land. That same record shapes your exam preparation.
Your Workflows
Lifecycle Navigation
Registration documents, formatted to your institution's standard. Logbooks kept digitally, day by day. Final year projects guided through to submission.
Your Career
Career Runway
Grades, training records and project work, gathered into a profile that stays past graduation. Nothing built inside Dichora disappears when you leave.
None of these work alone. AI connects them.
Your academic life, carried forward.
Four parts of academic life that have never worked together. Your library, your standing, your workflows, your career. Watch what happens when they do.
An animated sequence showing four things a student's academic life depends on: their library, their standing, their milestones, and their future. A sweep moves across all four, filling each in its own rhythm. When standing dips, the library and milestones respond on their own, before the student has to act. The record then becomes their future.
Your academic library, kept.
Your standing, tracked all semester.
Your workflows, no longer manual.
Your record, carried past graduation.
Every semester builds on the last.
Built by people who live the problem.
Zonais is a startup team working from Nigeria. We are building the system that should have existed for African students, but never did.
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David Odewumi
Community Manager
Leads community, outreach and social media, keeping Dichora close to the students and campuses it serves.
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