WUA is a private institution that was co-founded by two visionaries Professor Hope Cynthia Sadza, a former Public Service Commissioner and Dr Fay King Chung the former Minister of Education in Zimbabwe. The Institution was established through a Trustee Deed 692/2001 and granted authority to operate as a university by the Parliament of Zimbabwe through Statutory Instrument 130 0f 2004. Its main campus will be located in Marondera Town, 80km South East of Harare