Find postdoctoral research fellowship programme for African students to study and research home or abroad 2025-2026.
McKinsey has six offices in Africa – Johannesburg, Lagos, Luanda, Casablanca, Nairobi, Addis Ababa. We serve many leading African organizations across sectors including energy and materials, financial services, consumer goods and retail, telecommunications, infrastructure and logistics, as wel
Published: 2021-09-27 Type: Fellowship Deadline: November 12, 2021
Successful candidates will be part of a networked cohort of highly skilled applied epidemiologists (Epi fellows) who are able to work with National Public Health Institutes (NPHIs) and National Ministry of Health (MoH) Departments to improve their levels of preparedness, field surveillance, and resp
Published: 2021-09-27 Type: Fellowship Study in: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda Deadline: October 29, 2021
Applications are open for the Active Citizen Fellowship 2021. The Active Citizen Fellowship is a rigorous hands-on learning program designed for young leaders in Nigeria who have demonstrated passion and commitment in the past to promote democracy and/or improve the quality of life in their com
Published: 2021-09-24 Type: Fellowship Study in: Nigeria Deadline: October 17, 2021
The Vital Voices GROW Fellowship is a highly competitive one-year accelerator program for women owners of small and medium businesses in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa. The program includes customized business skills training, technical assi
Published: 2021-09-24 Type: Fellowship Deadline: September 27, 2021
The HQ team is making a call for applications for Amplify HQ, a paid two-month creative Fellowship program for African storytellers and creators, with a lens focused on Africa’s narratives and stories coming from the pandemic. Amplify is a partnership of TheZVG and Mastercard Foundation, and A
Published: 2021-09-23 Type: Fellowship Deadline: October 10, 2021
A fellowship of up to $2,000 to support international African students travel to Africa for research. The award honors former Nigerian President Nnamdi Azikiwe, a scholar and politician, who led Nigeria as its first civilian president and who invited MSU faculty to join him and other Niger
Published: 2021-09-23 Type: Fellowship Deadline: September 30, 2021
African Environmental Defenders play an important role in protecting their lands and ecosystems from unsustainable industrial development, logging and extractive projects. But the nature of their work can expose them to significant risks. Throughout the world, there are ever-incr
Published: 2021-09-23 Type: Fellowship Deadline: September 24, 2021
This research stay is designed to enable researchers to conduct research studies in France: field enquiries, library and archives work. This call is part of the Atlas short-term postdoctoral mobility programme offered by the FMSH and its partners.
Published: 2021-09-22 Type: Fellowship Study in: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania Deadline: December 10, 2021
The program aims to give limited support for travel and subsistence to early-career researchers from African countries (PhD students and postdocs at African institutions), who are interested in gaining experience in another African country. The final goal is to contribute to the development of colla
Published: 2021-09-22 Type: Fellowship Deadline: October 30, 2021
Applications are invited from suitably qualified African graduates for the AU Digital and Innovation Fellowship 2021 which aims at identifying and deploying highly competent tech innovators to African Union Headquarters. The fellowship will provide a platform for the innovator
Published: 2021-09-22 Type: Fellowship Deadline: October 4, 2021
The Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) offers up to two Tandem Residential Fellowships for 3-5 months each at the University of Ghana (for the academic year 2022/2023). The Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (
Published: 2021-09-21 Type: Fellowship Study in: Germany Deadline: November 15, 2021
The Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) is dedicated to research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, with ‘Sustainable Governance’ as its central topic. Our main thematic corridors are conflict and sustainable peace, democracy and environmental t
Published: 2021-09-20 Type: Fellowship Study in: Ghana Deadline: November 15, 2021
The U.S. Department of State and IREX is pleased to announce the Mandela Washington Fellowship Program 2021/2022 to participate in a six-week Leadership Institute at a U.S. college or university to share your experiences with and learn from U.S. citizens and other Fellows. The Fellowship&nbs
Published: 2021-09-20 Type: Fellowship Deadline: September 15, 2021
The aim of this IBRO-MENA school and conference is to introduce students to neurogenomics and to try to bridge the gap between basic neuroscience and clinical practice. The course consists of a 3-day advanced neurogenetics school followed by a 3-day clinical neuroscience conference. The school ai
Published: 2021-09-20 Type: Fellowship Deadline: September 19, 2021
I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies and the German Historical Institute in Rome (Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom) offer a joint residential fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year. With this fellowship, I Tatti and the DHI Rom seek to stim
Published: 2021-09-20 Type: Fellowship Study in: Italy Deadline: November 15, 2021