Are you an African student searching for scholarship to fund your studies abroad? Search no more, below is a list of scholarships for African students to study 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: 27 Sep 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 12 Nov 2021
The Wits-TUB-UNILAG Urban Lab Programme is built on a partnership agreement between the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), the University of Lagos (UNILAG) and the Technische Universität Berlin (TUB). This collaboration seeks to contribute to the implementation
Published: 15 Apr 2024 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: 30 Sep 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: 27 Sep 2021 Type: Fellowship Study in: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda Deadline: 29 Oct 2021
The call is open to all qualified African youth passionate about promoting youth engagement in achieving the “Africa we want”. Acting on the guidance provided by Ministers of Youth, Culture, and Sport, H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat, the Chairperson of the AUC, seeks to appoint the&nb
Published: 14 Apr 2024 Type: Internship Study in: Ethiopia Deadline: 05 Oct 2021
The first edition of the West and Central Africa Migration Journalism Award is now open for entries from journalists who have brought attention to the many facets of migration in West and Central Africa. Hosted by the International Organization for Migrat
Published: 24 Sep 2021 Type: Contest Deadline: 15 Oct 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: 24 Sep 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 27 Sep 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: 14 Apr 2024 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 10 Oct 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: 23 Sep 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 30 Sep 2021
This call aims to support and help embed research collaborations that build on ideas of African scholars and institutions about what fairer, transformed partnership arrangements should look like. As such the call is open to any Africa-led project that addresses any basic or applied aims prioritised
Published: 23 Sep 2021 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 07 Jan 2022
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: 23 Sep 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 24 Sep 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: 22 Sep 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 10 Dec 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: 22 Sep 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 30 Oct 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: 22 Sep 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 04 Oct 2021
The DW Akademie Film Development Fund has been designed to support filmmakers from the Global South who are passionate about storytelling and want to build their careers. We are looking for filmmakers from Uganda or Tanzania who have already made one or more films and would now like sup
Published: 22 Sep 2021 Type: Entrepreneurs Study in: Tanzania, Uganda Deadline: 25 Oct 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: 20 Sep 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 15 Nov 2021
The East Africa Human Rights Program (EAHRP) is a regional training program which provides a unique opportunity for human rights workers, defenders, activists and educators from civil society organizations, institutions and government agencies, to deepen their understanding of human rights and the e
Published: 20 Sep 2021 Type: Training Deadline: 17 Oct 2020
At Google, we believe a diversity of attributes, experiences, and perspectives are needed to build tools that can change the world. Everyone deserves an opportunity to pursue connections in the industry, to peers, and a career path in technology. To help break down the barriers that prevent underrep
Published: 17 Sep 2021 Type: Internship Deadline: Not Specified
AfDB African Youth Adaptation Solutions Challenge: The Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) and the African Development Bank (AfDB.org) have launched a call for applications for the first edition of the African Youth Adaptation Solutions (YouthAdapt) Challenge. The African Youth Adaptations Sol
Published: 16 Sep 2021 Type: Contest Deadline: 06 Oct 2021
In 2010 alone, a whopping 380,376 African Students, enrolled for studies at an international university, from then to 2020, that number has significantly grown with many African students making plans to study overseas.
Usually, when you check the cost that comes with studying overseas, it is easier for you to opt for a cheaper option, which is studying in your country. Yet, the question remains, if abroad studies are so expensive why then are African Students trooping out to do so? Simple answer, they are going to school on scholarship.
In a bid to make studying abroad easier and cheaper for students in various African countries, the government, universities, companies, foundations, and even individuals, made available schemes such as fully-funded scholarships for African students, which aspiring students like you can take advantage of to fund their studies overseas.
Being the absolute go to website / plug for all things international scholarships for African students, you can now double your efforts on finding suitable online scholarships for African students, by browsing through our impressive compilation of international study opportunities you can easily qualify for.
We believe that money should never be a hindrance for you to further your education, which is why we also have overseas study opportunities that you can benefit from, no matter the type of degree you want to pursue.
As a Masters or Ph.D student, you can check out our latest postgraduate scholarships for African students. And if you are an aspiring Bachelor's degree student, to see our undergraduate scholarships for African students to study abroad go to our undergraduate section. We ensure that no one gets left behind in this race for better abroad study opportunities.
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