Africa

Advance Your Agri Food Career: SHEAF Fellowship 2026 for Women in Kenya Malawi Senegal (Up to 25 Fellows)

If you are a woman working on agriculture and food systems in Kenya, Malawi, or Senegal and want to sharpen leadership skills, build a powerful regional network, and learn practical ways to design gender-responsive policy and programs, the She Lea...

Deadline: Jan 31, 2026

Africa Fundraising Grants 2025: How African NGOs Can Win up to 5,000 Dollars and 12 Months of Support

If you run an African NGO, community project, or social enterprise, you already know the painful truth: good ideas are not the problem. Money and fundraising skills are.

Amount: Up to $5,000 USD in matching funds + fundraising training + 12 months fiscal sponsorship Deadline: Dec 16, 2025

African Poetry Digital Humanities Grant 2026: Get Up to $10,000 for Digital Scholarship

If you work with African poetry — whether your interest is oral performance, manuscript archives, contemporary slam culture, or translation practices — this grant is designed to fund the digital work that brings those materials into new life.

Amount: Up to $10,000 Deadline: Jan 23, 2026

African Union Kwame Nkrumah Awards for Scientific Excellence (AUKNASE): Up to $100,000 for African Scientists

Annual awards celebrating Africa's leading scientists whose breakthroughs drive sustainable development, industrialization, and social progress. Continental laureates receive up to USD $100,000 and regional laureates receive USD $20,000, with recognition during the AU Heads of State Summit. Awards cover natural and applied sciences, engineering, innovation, and gender-responsive research.

Amount: Up to USD $100,000 for continental laureates and USD $20,000 for regional laureates Deadline: Rolling Location: Africa

African Violence Research Fellowship 2026: How to Get the Harry Frank Guggenheim African Fellow Award and a $10,000 Fieldwork Grant

If your doctoral research probes the causes, pathways, or mitigation of violence on the African continent, the Harry Frank Guggenheim African Fellow Awards deserves a spot at the top of your funding wish list.

Deadline: Mar 1, 2026

Afritondo Short Story Prize 2026: Win 1000 Dollars for Powerful African and Black Fiction on Transition

If you are a Black or African fiction writer with a story sitting in your drafts and a theme gnawing at you, this prize should be squarely on your radar.

Amount: $1,000 (winner) + $100 each (4 shortlisted writers) Deadline: Dec 23, 2025

AGNES Intra-Africa Mobility Grants 2025: EUR 3,000 for African Researchers

Junior researchers in sub-Saharan Africa can secure up to EUR 3,000 to conduct collaborative research with AGNES network members, building scientific capacity and international connections.

Type: Grant Amount: Up to EUR 3,000 Deadline: Nov 30, 2025 Location: Africa
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Aim for the Royal Society Buchanan Medal 2026: How to Nominate for the £2,000 Biomedical Science Medal

If you work in biomedical science in the UK, Commonwealth, or the Republic of Ireland, the Buchanan Medal is one of those quietly prestigious honors that says, “Your work changed how medicine is practiced or how diseases are understood.

Apply for a Free Youth Fellowship in Social Impact: HundrED Youth Ambassador Programme 2026 (Build SDG Projects, Mentorship, Global Network)

If you are 13–19 and sick of ideas that live only in your head, this is the kind of programme that helps those ideas stand up and do something useful.

Deadline: Jan 13, 2026

Apply for a Full Scholarship in AI for Science: AIMS South Africa Master’s Program 2026-2027 (Deadline March 6, 2026)

If you care about mathematics, artificial intelligence, and real scientific problems — and you live in Africa — this is one of those rare opportunities that actually pays you to learn.

Deadline: Mar 6, 2026