Scholarships for Africans

Every year, applications open for undergraduate, masters, and doctoral funding opportunities for African students to study abroad. These scholarships are offered by institutions and organizations in Africa and across the world.

Select your country below and start applying for scholarships for African students:

Angola  Benin  Botswana  Burkina Faso  Burundi  Cameroon  Congo  Côte d’Ivoire  Egypt  Ethiopia  Gambia  Ghana  Kenya  Lesotho Liberia  Madagascar  Malawi  Mozambique  Namibia  Nigeria  Rwanda  Sierra Leone  South Africa  Swaziland  Tanzania  Uganda  Zambia  Zimbabwe

Eastern Africa Network for Bioinformatics Training (EANBiT) Masters Scholarships 2021/2022 for East African Students

The Eastern Africa Network for Bioinformatics Training (EANBiT) is offering 12 fellowship positions for an MSc. in Bioinformatics (at Pwani ...
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Africa Museum Residency in Belgium 2021 – Call for Applications from African Creatives

The Africa Museum is accepting applications for its new residency programme, which will be heldin Tervuren, Belgium from September 2021. Application Deadline: ...
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Goethe Institut Kigali Writing Gender Residency 2021 for African Writers

As a collaboration between Huza Press and the Goethe Institut Kigali, we are announcing a four-week writers’ residency in Kigali ...
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Gender Equitable and Transformative Social Policy for Post-COVID-19 Africa (GETSPA): Post-Doctoral Fellowship Call for Applications

The Institute of African Studies (IAS) at the University of Ghana, with funding support from the Open Society Institutes of ...
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Connect Artists Residency Programme 2021 for Artists from Africa & Switzerland

Connect South Africa will grant a funded residency to one artist from Switzerland and one artist from Southern, East or ...
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Norway Kulturstudier Scholarship 2021/2022 for Ghanaian Students – University of Cape Coast

The Norwegian organization Kulturstudier (Culture Studies) is offering scholarships to a one semester’s university undergraduate course in Global Environmental Studies ...
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