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.
Ashinaga presents the “Ashinaga Africa Initiative” aiming to provide higher education to 20 brilliant students from Sub-Saharan African countries each year, some of which are among the poorest in the world, and encourage them to become leading professionals in their own countries. We
Published: 04 Dec 2023 Type: Undergraduate Deadline: 12 Jan 2024
You are invited to apply for the Wells Mountain Initiative (WMI) Scholars Program 2024 open to students of developing countries. WMI is a public charitable foundation based in Bristol, Vermont, USA, which has been approved under the United States Internal Revenue Service. This 
Published: 04 Dec 2023 Type: Undergraduate Study in: United States Deadline: 01 Mar 2023
International students from African countries are here invited to apply for Richard Van Loon Scholarship to study at Carleton University, Canada for the commencing academic session.
Published: 01 Dec 2023 Type: Undergraduate Study in: Canada Deadline: 01 Feb 2024
The African Peacebuilding Network (APN) of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) invites research fellowship applications from African scholars, researchers, policy analysts, and practitioners working on conflict and peacebuilding issues at universities and research institutions; or region
Published: 01 Dec 2023 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 11 Feb 2024
The Africa Tech Summit (ATS) has officially started applications for its renowned Investment Showcase, which will be held in Nairobi on the 14th and 15th of February 2024. The Investment Showcase, now in its sixth year, is an essential venue for African IT ventures to propose new ideas and interact
Published: 01 Dec 2023 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 19 Dec 2023
Are you an agribusiness with a climate-smart innovation that tackles food insecurity and increases resilience in the East and Southern Africa region? Apply to our program to receive tailor-made support as well as access to finance to bring your innovations to scale. The CGIAR Food Systems Acceler
Published: 30 Nov 2023 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 08 Jan 2024
The Ashinaga Africa Initiative (AAI) is an international leadership program that supports high-achieving students who lost one or both parents and are committed to returning to sub-Saharan Africa to contribute to the continent’s ongoing socio-economic progress.
Published: 30 Nov 2023 Type: Undergraduate Deadline: 19 Jan 2024
The SADC Tertiary Institution Essay Competition was introduced as part of the initiatives aimed at providing due recognition to the Founders of SADC for their contribution to the establishment of SADC and subsequent pursuance of a regional integration agenda. The topic for the 2024 edi
Published: 27 Nov 2023 Type: Contest Deadline: 31 Mar 2024
The Open Doors Fellowship Program for women researchers in Africa is a holistic program that shall target women researchers in Africa to help them acquire the necessary hard and soft skills to strengthen their placements within their hosting institutions and, ultimately, avoid the dropout befor
Published: 27 Nov 2023 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 10 Jan 2024
The University of Oxford is offering the Commonwealth Shared Scholarship Scheme for students from select developing countries
Published: 27 Nov 2023 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 14 Dec 2023
The Richard J. Van Loon Scholarship, valued at $5,000 for the 2023/2024 academic year, is awarded annually to an outstanding international student from an African country. The award was endowed in 2005 by friends, family and colleagues in honour of Richard J. Van Loon, Carleton’s 10th Presiden
Published: 27 Nov 2023 Type: Undergraduate Study in: Canada Deadline: 01 Feb 2024
The University of Edinburgh Commonwealth Shared Scholarship Scheme is a joint initiative between the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and UK universities, including the University of Edinburgh, to jointly support scholarships for students from developing Commonwealth countries who
Published: 27 Nov 2023 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 14 Dec 2023
The Africa Startup Law Accelerator will bridge the gaps by providing a tailor-made 12-week virtual program designed to accelerate the business growth, legal setup & compliance, operational capacity and impact of early-stage and growth-stage startups working on legal-tech and justice innovations.
Published: 27 Nov 2023 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 01 Dec 2023
Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN) invites journalists from Nairobi County, Kenya to join a media workshop on air pollution in Nairobi from Feb 8-9, 2024. This two-day workshop?aims to enhance the knowledge and skills of local journalists to report on air pollution, thereby contr
Published: 24 Nov 2023 Type: Training Study in: Kenya Deadline: 31 Dec 2023
The original and longest running award scheme of its kind, the 9th edition of the pan-African (Re)Insurance Journalism Awards is inviting entries from across the continent. The awards are an extension of Continental Reinsurance’s continued commitment to the advancement of excellen
Published: 24 Nov 2023 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 15 Feb 2024
The Africa Foundation for Young Media professionals is calling on early career journalists/broadcasters across Africa to apply for the African Change Narrative Storytellers’ Fellowship. The aim is to raise new crops of journalists, storytellers, content writers who are equipped for changing
Published: 23 Nov 2023 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 05 Dec 2023
Every year this “Post-graduate study on Nano-Satellite Technologies (PNST)” Fellowship Programme will accept up to three students in the Masters course (2 years duration) and up to three students in the Doctorate course (3 years duration). Successful participants will be awarded a master
Published: 23 Nov 2023 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 05 Jan 2024
From the moment the Emerging Leaders arrive, they are immersed in the innovative, constantly evolving culture of Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area. Emerging Leaders work closely with their Professional Mentors to design meaningful projects while exploring the San Francisco Bay Area with
Published: 23 Nov 2023 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 10 Jan 2024
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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