BonafID
Sovereign cloud identity and verifiable academic credentials for African students, researchers, and faculties.
BonafID is a cloud-hosted, open-source federated IAM platform co-created by WACREN and partners. It gives any institution a production-grade identity provider, without on-premise servers, without specialist staffing, and without waiting for national infrastructure to exist.
The problem BonafID exists to fix
Most African HEIs cannot participate in the federation because they have no managed identity provider. Building and operating one from scratch (servers, certificates, staff) is beyond most institutions' IT capacity. BonafID removes that barrier entirely.
No infrastructure required
Cloud-hosted. WACREN operates the platform. Your IT team manages identities only.
Integrates with existing systems
Data extraction tools connect BonafID to your SIS, HR system, or LDAP without manual migration.
Federation-ready from day one
Registered in eduID.africa's federation on deployment. Instantly eligible for eduGAIN and geteduroam.
Lifelong identity
Each user gets a persistent identity that travels with them, across institutions, programmes, and career stages.
Campus IAM Architecture Contrast Slot
Slot for comparison illustration showing legacy unmanaged campus credentials vs federated BonafID single sign-on.
How BonafID fits in the stack
eduGAIN / Global R&E Network
International federation: GÉANT
eduID.africa
Continental aggregator federation
National federations (NREN-operated)
Optional: where NREN has capacity
BonafID (Institution IdP)
Campus identity provider: cloud-hosted by WACREN
Student / Staff information systems
SIS · HR · LDAP · Active Directory
Request BonafID for your institution
BonafID is currently being deployed as part of the AfricaConnect4 programme. Institutions in WACREN, UbuntuNet Alliance, and ASREN member countries are eligible to request access.
For institutions
If your institution is in a country with a participating NREN, contact your NREN's T&I team. If you're in a country without a national federation, you can request direct access via the catchall programme.
For NRENs and developers
BonafID is open source. The full codebase, deployment documentation, and API reference are available on GitHub. NRENs can self-host or contribute to the project.