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Below is a list of ongoing fully-funded and partial scholarships for students in Africa to help fund your studies abroad or in Africa. View list, learn how to apply for scholarships and win a scholarship today.
Applications for the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at CMU-Africa 2024/2025 are now open. The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program was established at CMU-Africa in 2016. The program provides generous financial, social, and academic support for students whose talent and promise exceed their financial resources.
Date Posted: 14 Nov, 2024
Are you an innovative leader committed to leveraging Artificial Intelligence (Al) to solve Africa's challenges? Do you want to lead the conversation on Al and innovation in your community, while gaining access to a global network of change agents? Apply for the Global Al Council Africa Ambassador Program 2024.
Date Posted: 14 Nov, 2024
Applications are open for the First Book Grant for Scholars of Color 2025. The First Book Grant for Scholars of Color (FBG) supports academic sabbatical leave for research projects about Christian faith and life, the practice of ministry, religious trends and movements, Christian and other faith-based institutions, and religion and social issues.
Date Posted: 14 Nov, 2024
Applications for the Agora Policy Writing Fellowship 2025 are now open. The fellowship is designed to develop and deepen the capacity of the competitively-selected participants to conceive, research and write compelling and impactful policy
papers.
Date Posted: 14 Nov, 2024
Applications are open for the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) Youth Fellowship 2025. The CIF Youth Fellowship offers a unique opportunity to work on climate finance projects in your own country with the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) and their six partner multilateral development banks (MDBs), including, African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Inter-American Development Bank, and World Bank Group (including IFC).
Date Posted: 14 Nov, 2024
The Institute for Human Sciences invites applications for the Jerzy Giedroyc Junior Visiting Fellowships. Click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
Date Posted: 14 Nov, 2024
Applications are open for the Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC) Fellowship 2025. With the support of sponsors and partners, the conference is offering fellowships to journalists from the Global South, and those from historically underrepresented groups to participate in the prestigious event. Competition is keen, so you need to convince them that you will make great use of the training that GIJC25 offers.
Date Posted: 14 Nov, 2024
Applications are open for the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at the University of Oxford 2025. The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at the University of Oxford supports passionate, locally rooted and globally minded African young people to undertake graduate studies at the University of Oxford.
Date Posted: 14 Nov, 2024
Applications are open for the Obama Foundation Leaders Asia-Pacific Program 2025-2026. From Indonesia to Hawaii, President Obama's ties to the Asia-Pacific have informed his values and his faith in the emerging generation of changemakers across the region. Apply now!
Date Posted: 14 Nov, 2024
Applications for the Obama Foundation Leaders Africa Program 2025-2026 are now open. The Obama Foundation Leaders Africa program seeks to build a growing network of innovative and values-based changemakers who will drive positive change in their communities, the continent, and the world. Apply now!
Date Posted: 14 Nov, 2024
Applications are ongoing for the Aqua for All Social Impact Incentives (SIINC) for WASH Enterprises. Click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
Date Posted: 13 Nov, 2024
Applications are open for the United States African Development Foundation (USADF) Off-Grid Energy Challenge 2025. Click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
Date Posted: 13 Nov, 2024
Applications are open for the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM) Digital Humanism Fellowship 2025-2026. The fellowship aims to bring eminent scholars from a wide range of academic fields to the Institute and allow them to pursue cutting-edge research on all aspects of the networked society.
Date Posted: 13 Nov, 2024
Applications are open for the French Embassy Scholarship - France Excellence 2025/2026. The Embassy of France in Nigeria is launching a new scholarship program to finance a Masters degree in a French university for the academic year 2025/2026. Apply now!
Date Posted: 13 Nov, 2024
Applications for the IMF Kim Wall Memorial Fund 2025 are now open. The IWMF's Kim Wall Memorial Fund will provide grants to journalists whose work embodies the spirit of Kim's reporting. Click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
Date Posted: 13 Nov, 2024
Applications are open for the Commonwealth Shared Scholarships 2025-2026. The Commonwealth Shared Scholarship programme is one of three Master's programmes offered by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission. Click here to learn more about this fully-funded opportunity.
Date Posted: 13 Nov, 2024
Applications are open for the Zenith Bank Startup Pitch Competition 2024. This initiative is designed to discover and accelerate the growth of innovative Nigerian startups across sectors such as Fintech, AgriTech, Health Tech, E-commerce, and more. Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your startup!
Date Posted: 13 Nov, 2024
Applications are open for the International Society of Tropical Foresters Innovation Prize 2025. Since 2014, the Yale Chapter of the International Society of Tropical Foresters (ISTF) has awarded an Innovation Prize at its annual conference to honor outstanding initiatives and ideas related to tropical forest use and conservation. Click here to learn more about this opportunity.
Date Posted: 13 Nov, 2024
Applications are open for the Tech Women Emerging Leaders Program 2025. Tech Women aims to empower, connect and support the next generation of women leaders in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by providing them access and opportunity to advance their careers, pursue their dreams, and become role models for women and girls in their communities.
Date Posted: 13 Nov, 2024
Applications are open for the Tech Women Emerging Leaders Program 2025. Tech Women aims to empower, connect and support the next generation of women leaders in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by providing them access and opportunity to advance their careers, pursue their dreams, and become role models for women and girls in their communities.
Date Posted: 13 Nov, 2024