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List of postdoctoral research fellowship 2026-2027 for African students to study in abroad or in Africa
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Join the ISS Junior Fellowship Programme – where hard-working young West Africans develop the skills to drive meaningful change and launch their careers in the policy field. The Institute for Security Studies (ISS) and the Bosch Foundation are empowering West Africa’s next generation
Published: 16 Jul 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 01 Aug 2025
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The 2025 Africa’s Data Future Fellowship is a dynamic 3-month remote capacity-building programme for emerging leaders in the African data governance landscape. Organised by the Centre for the Study of the Economies of Africa (CSEA), the fellowship equips early-career professionals and changema
Published: 11 Jul 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 30 Jul 2025
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The African Investigative Journalism Conference (#AIJC2025), a project of the Wits Centre for Journalism (WCJ) in partnership with SKUP, the Association for Critical and Investigative Press in Norway and Bellingcat will host an intensive training course on the latest investigati
Published: 10 Jul 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 25 Jul 2025
Apply now for the Weather and Climate Information Services (WISER) Africa co-production fellowship, funded by the UK government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) through the Africa Regional Climate and Nature (ARCAN) programme. Three fellowships are being offered through
Published: 03 Jul 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 08 Aug 2025
The Africa region of the World Bank Group (WBG) is pleased to announce the opening of the application period for the 2026 WBG Africa Fellowship Program for Ph.D. candidates and recent Ph.D. graduates who are Sub-Saharan Africa nationals. Women are especially encouraged to apply. Throu
Published: 03 Jul 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 25 Aug 2025
With support from the Mellon Foundation and additional funding from the Cravens Foundation, MASS is relaunching the ADC Fellowship, empowering African architects and designers to lead the continent’s urbanization. The ADC Fellowship is a twelve-month hands-on residency program in Kigal
Published: 02 Jul 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: Rwanda Deadline: 13 Jul 2025
The Ireland Fellows Programme enables early to mid-career professionals from eligible countries, with leadership potential, to benefit from a prestigious, world-class, quality education contributing to capacity building. It offers selected students the opportunity to undertake a fully funded on
Published: 01 Jul 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 25 Jul 2025
One World Media, in partnership with Surge Africa, is thrilled to launch a new opportunity as part of The Climate Reporting Gap Initiative. Across Nigeria, the impacts of climate change are increasingly visible — from rising heat and water scarcity to the complexities of the
Published: 01 Jul 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 20 Aug 2025
The Ireland Fellows Programme enables early to mid-career professionals from eligible countries, with leadership potential, to benefit from a prestigious, world-class, quality education contributing to capacity building. It offers selected students the opportunity to undertake a fully funded one-yea
Published: 30 Jun 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: Ireland Deadline: 25 Jul 2025
Through the AI Accountability Fellowships, the Pulitzer Center aims to support in-depth, high-impact reporting projects that document and explain the opportunities, harms, and regulatory and labor issues surrounding AI systems. The Fellowship program provides selected journalists with financial supp
Published: 25 Jun 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 11 Aug 2025
The Yale Emerging Climate Leaders Fellowship offers an opportunity for 16 young climate and clean energy practitioners from across the Global South to broaden their technical skills, deepen their professional networks, and exchange views with top global clean energy and climate change leaders. Cl
Published: 20 Jun 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 01 Aug 2025
The Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI) at Stellenbosch University (South Africa) and the Institut Pasteur de Dakar (IPD) (Senegal), in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, invite applications for the African STARS Fellowship; a fully funded opportunity to pursue an MSc in Bioi
Published: 11 Jun 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: South Africa Deadline: 26 Jun 2025
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African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) is pleased to announce the launch of the inaugural African Women in Data Science Fellowship. This timely initiative responds to the growing demand for data-driven leadership to tackle the pressing challenges of food insecurity and climat
Published: 11 Jun 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi Deadline: 31 Jul 2025
The FATE Institute Fellowship Program is a two-year, non-residential fellowship designed to engage policy experts, economists, academics, and development professionals in producing evidence-based research and insights. Fellows contribute to policy processes aimed at strengthening Nigeria’s ent
Published: 10 Jun 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: Nigeria Deadline: 25 Jul 2025
The Commonwealth Startup Fellowship will run for six months and is designed to ignite and elevate high-potential startups from low and middle income Commonwealth countries. The programme is made up of a combination of immersive in-person experiences and online learning, to provide participants with
Published: 02 Jun 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: Ghana Deadline: 30 Jun 2025
Imoukhuede Foundation (AIG) Fellowship Programme. The AIG Fellowship programme gives outstanding individuals who have made significant contributions to the development of the public sector an opportunity to deepen their knowledge and understanding of critical public policy challenges facing the cont
Published: 28 May 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: Not Specified
This is a three-year partnership from 2025 to 2027. The final round of Fellowships – starting in January 2027 – will be awarded in due course as part of the same programme. Fellows will spend the first ten months of their Fellowships at IASH, followed by up to two months based in
Published: 28 May 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 28 Jul 2025
The programme aims to equip a new generation of African policymakers with the tools to craft technically sound, context-sensitive, and fiscally grounded policies. Administered by the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Africa (OSAA), in collaboration with the UN Development Coordination
Published: 20 May 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: Not Specified
The African Young Women Leaders Fellowship Programme offers an interesting 12-month assignment with UNDP at its HQ in New York or in one of its regional or country offices. There will be no placement in hardship locations. Location: UNDP at Headquarters in New York or in a region
Published: 19 May 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 01 Jun 2025
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Global Health Corps (GHC) is excited to launch our new Africa Leadership Accelerator Fellowship, a 9-month, hybrid program designed to strengthen the leadership and management skills of early to mid-career health professionals ages 21-35, working across Sub-Saharan Africa. The Africa Leadership A
Published: 19 May 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia Deadline: 20 Jun 2025