The first Indian Institute of Technology to be set up in Africa will come up in October in Tanzania. IIT Madras will set up its first International campus in Zanzibar, Tanzania, with plans to to start the classes by October 2023, said its Director V Kamakoti in his presidential address at IIT Madras’ 64th Institute Day.

• In February, a team of five professors from IIT Madras visited Tanzania and held discussions with various officials on starting the campus. 
• This would be the first IIT to be set up in Africa and can be instrumental in growth and nation building of not only Tanzania but of the continent,” Binaya Pradha, High Commissioner of India, Tanzania. 
• Sridhar Vembu, Founder of Zoho Corporation, was the chief guest of the event. He is an alumnus of the 1989 batch of BTech in Electrical Engineering and a distinguished alumnus of IIT Madras.