Africa deserves more than a free account hosted by others
My name is Aziz OUIMINGA. I was born in Ouagadougou in 1991. I am an engineer, I live in the Paris region, and every evening after my day job I work on building Tondnso.
I'm not doing this to pivot in eighteen months or raise venture capital. I'm doing this because I no longer accept that my family photos, my contracts, my identity papers — and those of millions of Africans like me — are stored on servers owned by people who don't even look at us.
Tond n'so — it belongs to us
In Mooré, Tond n'so means "it belongs to us". Not a marketing slogan. A claim.
Tondnso is a cloud storage service, built on the open-source Nextcloud technology, hosted between Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) and the Paris region (France, under GDPR jurisdiction). Your data is replicated between both sites from day one. AES-256 encryption at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit.
You pay with Orange Money, MTN MoMo, Moov Money, Wave, or a credit card — in euros, US dollars, or directly in XOF (FCFA), with no conversion fees. From 1,500 FCFA per month for 100 GB.
What we prove (not just promise)
Transparent location
You know where your data lives: the list of sites is public. We notify you thirty days in advance before any relocation.
No scanning, no resale, no advertising
Our stack is open source: Nextcloud for storage, Garage S3 for objects, PostgreSQL for accounts. You can verify yourself that no file analysis system runs on our infrastructure.
Clear legal framework
Ouido EI is a French sole proprietorship (SIRET 10484359400011). Your French-hosted data is protected by GDPR. As we migrate to Ouagadougou, we will fall under Burkinabè data protection laws.
Guaranteed export
Your files belong to you. You can download them at any time, in one click, in their original format. If Tondnso were ever to shut down, you would have ninety days to retrieve everything.
Why not self-host?
Because setting up your own server, managing backups, renewing SSL certificates, configuring DNS, securing the firewall and monitoring disks — that's a full-time job. You don't have the time. I do.
Tondnso is the infrastructure of a Burkinabè engineer who lives these problems daily, made available to those who just want it to work.
Why not Google Drive?
Because Google will never accept Orange Money. Because your data on Google is governed by US law, not by GDPR or African laws. Because no advertising will ever be displayed on Tondnso — and for good reason, we know nothing about your files.
And what if tomorrow Google drops its prices by 50% and accepts Mobile Money? Good for competition. Tondnso will remain what it is: an African infrastructure, independent, never to be acquired by a fund that would unilaterally decide to change the rules.
Our radical transparency commitment
I will write to you personally every quarter:
- how many clients we have,
- where your data is located,
- what we broke and how we fixed it,
- what the infrastructure actually costs.
You will know everything. Including when things go wrong.
The Pioneers program
The first 1,000 clients join the 2026 Pioneers:
- +50% bonus storage for 12 months
- a permanent digital badge displayed on their profile
- their username inscribed on the Wall of Founders
Not for show. To recognize that they took the bet with me when no one believed it was possible.