[Updated 26 October 2016.  New entries are marked with an asterisk.]

While there are a decent range of scholarships available for African students doing MAs and PhDs, the professional development opportunities for African academics appear more limited.    I’ve put down what I could find, but I’m sure there are more – please send any recommendations my way!   They’re listed by funding type and by country or region.

I include the link to the current version of the fellowship or grant offered when I found it, so some of the links may now be out of date.  I don’t plan to update all the links every year, so if you find an outdated link, just search for the current information on the program.

African Post-Docs

• The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program offers fellowships for  diaspora academics to return to teach in Africa
• The African Peacebuilding Network has residential post-doc positions in Africa and the US
• CODESRIA also offers post-docs (not clear if they’re residential)
• The Colin Murray grant for postdoctoral research in South Africa
• The National Research Foundation of South Africa offers post-docs for researchers from low-income countries other than SA
• The East Africa Social Science Translation Collaborative has a frequently-updated list of research and job opportunities across Africa and the US

European Post-Docs

• The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowships offer research support for early career academics from around the world, primarily for research in the EU
  
• The German Academic Exchange Service has fellowships for PhD studies and post-docs
• Volkswagen Stiftung offers humanities post-docs to African academics who would like to study in Germany
• The Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin and the Central European University in Budapest offer an eight-month fellowship for recent MA or PhD graduates from Nigeria and South Africa *
• The University of Pavia has a short-term visiting fellow programme for scholars from low income countries
• The Centre of African Studies at Cambridge is looking for visiting research fellows
• The Oxford Global Leaders Fellowship Programme offers two-year residential fellowships for people from non-OECD countries to study global governance
• The Newton International Fellowships Scheme supports postgraduate study by international researchers in the UK
• The Leventis Research Co-operation Programme at SOAS offers a three-month post-doc to Nigerian scholars *
• Durham University offers a one-term residential post-doc for scholars focused on Sudan through the Sir William Luce Fund *

Other Post-Docs

• The Australia Awards provides fellowships for short-term professional education in Australia
• The JNCASR-CICS Fellowship Programme for scientific research at Indian universities
• East African Social Science Translation Collaborative fellowships at UC Berkeley cover one semester’s residence and research support at CEGA
• The Center for Global Development offers year-long IDRC fellowships in Washington, DC for researchers from low income countries (via Marla Spivack)
• The World Bank has a one-year fellowship for researchers focused on child development *
• The World Academy of Sciences offers post-docs for researchers from low income countries who’d like to study in Brazil, India, Iran, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan and Thailand
• The Wellcome Trust provides a variety of fellowships for early and mid-career researchers in public health and tropical medicine from low income countries
• Scholars4Dev lists post-docs around the world
• The WorldFish Centre and IDRC have a really large (if now slightly outdated) list of scholarships, fellowships and post-docs (via Jon Harle, who also has his own great list of scholarships)
• DocLinks lists European post-docs for African researchers in a variety of fields (via Jon Harle)

Research Funding

• USAID’s Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research provides research funding for scientists in low income countries  *
• The Matasa Fellows Network provides young African scholars with busaries to produce synthesis papers and policy briefs on development-related topics
• The Association of African Universities offers small research grants to post-graduate students and lecturers at AAU-affiliated universities
• The SSRC’s African Peacebuilding Network also provides individual research grants and collaborative working group grants for researchers in Africa
• The Public Affairs Research Institute in South Africa offers funding for short research projects by MA and PhD students
• The African Union Scientific Award Programme offers large grants to top African scientists *
• The World Academy of Sciences provides research grants for scientists from low income countries
• Instrumental Access donates high quality scientific equipment to universities in low income countries

Travel, Conference, and Visiting Scholar Funding

• The Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford offers travel busaries for African academics who have had a paper accepted to their annual conference *
• 3ie is offering busaries for nationals of sub-Saharan African countries to attend the African Impact Evaluation conference
• Participants in the American Political Science Association’s Africa Workshops have their expenses covered
• The LSE-UCT July School offers bursaries for African nationals
• African scholars are eligible for the African Studies Association’s Presidential Fellows program, which covers the cost of attendance at the annual ASA conference in the US
• The Elsevier Foundation funds short exchange programs for faculty members who are focused on sustainability and live in a low income country *
• The United Nations University in Helsinki offers three-month residential internships for current PhD students *
• The University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars program offers six-month residential fellowships to African professors *
• PLOS offers US$500 travel grants for conference presentations by early career science researchers *
• African Women in Agricultural Research and Development offers mentoring, travel grants, and short courses on leadership to female scientists
• The German Academic Exchange Service also offers funding for travel, research, and visiting scholar positions
• AuthorAID provides small grants for travel, workshops, or online courses for academics from low income countries
• The Emerging Nations Science Foundation offers travel and conference grants
• The UK Collaborative on Development Sciences lists a number of calls for proposals

Training

• The African Institutions Initiative lists training courses throughout Africa in public health and infectious disease
• The Demographic & Health Surveys fellowship program offers training in the use of DHS surveys to university faculty from Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria and Zambia
• The Next Einstein Forum offers fellowships and mentoring to young African scientists
• The African Social Research Initiative at the University of Michigan offers summer research training to African PhD students or academics from Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, South Africa, and Uganda
• The African Studies Association of the UK offers writing workshops where early-career African academics can work on a paper with the editor of a journal
• The Partnership for African Social and Governance Research offers an intensive training course in research methods for African academics (also via Jon Harle)
• SOAS runs a residential school on governance for development in Africa, with all costs covered for accepted applicants
• Thomas Gale scholarships for students from the US and Kenya who would like to attend the SOAS Academic Summer School
• CODESRIA has just launched a College of Mentors, which connects PhD students at African universities to faculty members in Africa and the US for mentorship *
• TechWomen is a USAID program which offers training and mentorship to female leaders in STEM fields
• AuthorAID also connects academics from different countries who are looking for mentoring or assistance with specific aspects of the research and publication processes.  (I’m a mentor there, so look me up if you might like to work together.)
• Global Colleagues is an initiative from Academics Stand Against Poverty which connects junior scholars from low income countries with senior colleagues around the world
• The Moremi Initiative offers a yearlong training program for African women from 18 – 25
• WOMID is a new initiative which connects women doing PhDs in development-related fields with other women currently working in development
• The World Economic Forum offers a unique three-year professional developent fellowship with academic modules, mentoring and work experience
• Residents of Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe are eligible for the Eisenhower Fellowship, which offers two months of leadership training in the US for mid-career development professionals