As a complement to my list of scholarships for African students doing MAs and PhDs, here are all the research and travel grants that I could find for African students and scholars.  They’re listed by funding type and by country or region.  All the links have been updated as of February 2021, and new entries since the last update are marked with an asterisk.

I’ll note here that I get a lot of requests from people asking me to help them get a scholarship.  I’m not affiliated with any of the universities or scholarship providers listed here.  I can’t provide individualized recommendations for scholarships.

African Post-Docs

• The Inter-Africa Academic Mobility Scheme supports visiting researchers at a range of African universities
• The African Science Partnership for Intervention Research Excellence (ASPIRE) offers a variety of post-doc opportunities around Africa
• The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program offers fellowships for  diaspora academics to return to teach in Africa
• The Colin Murray grant for postdoctoral research in South Africa

European Post-Docs

• The Stephen Klasen Fellowship at the University of Göttingen offers post-docs in economics for scholars from low income countries *
• The Nordic Africa Institute offers post-docs to African researchers
• The University of Bayreuth offers fellowships for researchers in African Studies
• The Institute for Advance Studies in Toulouse offers post-docs in the social sciences, with a preference for applicants from low income countries
• The European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership offers a post-doc for African scholars in the biomedical and social sciences
• The World Academy of Sciences’ DFG Cooperation Visits Program offers funding for African researchers to pursue short-term stays at German universities
• The ZUKonnect Fellowship at the University of Konstanz offers a three- to six-month postdoc for researchers from Africa, Asia and Latin America
• 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 WZB Berlin Social Science Center offers a Global Fellowship Programme which allows scholars from low income countries to spend 4 – 6 months in Berlin
• Volkswagen Stiftung offers humanities post-docs to African academics who would like to study in Germany
• The Global Challenges Fellowship at Central European University supports scholars from low income countries studying pressing public policy issues
• 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
• The Commonwealth Rutherford Fellowships support post-doctoral research by students who are citizens of a Commonwealth country

Other Post-Docs

• 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
• Here’s a list of more than 240 postdocs around the world
• The World Academy of Sciences offers post-docs in Brazil, India, Malaysia, 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

Research Funding

• CODESRIA is currently offering large and small research grants for African social scientists *
• The African Institute of Mathematical Sciences offers small research grants *
• The Youth African Scholars program from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation offers research grants to African scholars working on topics related to violence and conflict *
• The L’Oréal For Women in Science Awards offer research funding to a limited number of female scientists around the world each year *
• J-PAL offers research funding for African scholars focused on digital finance *
• The African Population and Health Research Center provides dissertation funding to African PhD students
• The British Ecological Society provides research funding for ecologists in Africa
• USAID’s Partnership for Enhanced Engagement in Research offers research funding to STEM grad students and academics in a range of low income countries
• The Review of African Political Economy offers the Lionel Cliffe Research Scholarship to African scholars
• The International Center for Research on Women offers a cash prize to young researchers in the Global South for excellence in field research
• CIFAR offers a two-year visiting fellow position and research funding to early career researchers from around the world
• The International Brain Research Association is offering research funding to young scientists based in Africa
• The Royal Africa Society Prize offers research funding to scientists based in Africa
• The International Foundation for Science offers a basic research grant to researchers from low income countries
• The American Political Science Association offers small research grants to its members
• The Robert Bosch Stiftung Academy Fellowships at Chatham House provide one-year fellowships with research funding to mid-career African professionals
• The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy offers small grants to current PhD students from anywhere in the world
• The Africa Research Excellence Fund offers training and grants for African researchers in the health sciences
• The FLAIR Fellowship provides a substantial amount of funding to early career African scientists
• The Robert S. McNamara Fellowship at the World Bank provides research funding to PhD students from low income countries
• The International Network for Government Science Advice offers research grants to scholars from low and middle-income countries
• The Independent Social Science Research Foundation offers a variety of grants
• The European Research Council offers starting grants to early-career scientists of any nationality
• The Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund offers academic placements and research funding to scholars who are living in countries affected by civil war
• The International Growth Centre has regular calls for proposals on economic development
• Grand Challenges Africa offers innovation seed grants to African scholars doing work related to the SDGs
• The Africa Science Leadership Programme at the University of Pretoria supports early- to mid-career researchers in all disciplines including natural sciences, engineering, social sciences, arts and the humanities
• The West Africa Research Association offers doctoral research fellowships to West African scholars
• The SSRC’s African Peacebuilding Network also provides individual research grants and collaborative working group grants for researchers in Africa
• The SSRC’s Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa program offers fellowships for PhD students preparing dissertation proposals, writing the dissertation, and completing the dissertation at universities in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda
• The Mawazo PhD Scholars Programme offers a research fellowship for women doing PhDs at East African universities
• The ACLS African Humanities Program offers research funding to African PhD students at universities in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda
• 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 Africa-Oxford Travel Grant program offers funding for African scholars to spend a short amount of time in residence at Oxford to develop new projects with scholars there *
• The Philomathia Africa Visiting Research Fellowship offers a residency at Cambridge for mid-career African scholars focused on land use and energy
• The Commonwealth Medical Scholarships allow mid-career medical staff from low income countries to build their skills
• The University of Birmingham is looking for Cadbury Fellows for a four-week visiting scholar position in African literature
• The Amartya Sen Prize offers travel funding to attend the World Congress of the International Economic Association
• The Atlantic Fellows program offers yearlong, non-residential fellowships to scholars and activists focused on health and social equality
• Commonwealth Split-Site Scholarships offer PhD students from low income countries the chance to spend 12 months at a UK university
• The Max Planck Institute in Berlin offers a six-month writing fellowship for PhD students from African, Asian and Latin American countries
• The African Studies Center Leiden offers visiting fellowships to African researchers
• The Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) offers an academic mobility grant for academics to do exchange programs within the Commonwealth
• The ACU also offers a summer school travel grant for students to attend summer schools at universities within the Commonwealth
• The Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study offers research grants, visiting researcher grants, and post-docs for scholars and creative writers
• The Population Reference Bureau offers a policy training program for African PhD students studying public health
• The Rothamsted International – University of Nottingham Fellowships offer visiting researcher positions to scholars from low income countries focused on agriculture
• Chatham House offers the African Public Health Leaders Fellowship
• Iso Lomso fellowships are available for early career African researchers to spend time in residence at Stellenbosch
• The Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford offers one-year visiting researcher positions for African economists
• The Academy Africa fellowships at Chatham House support one visiting researcher each year from Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal or South Africa
• The Africa-Oxford Initiative has annual calls for visiting fellows
• The Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces project at Cornell University has annual calls for African research fellows
• The Association of Commonwealth Universities offers Early Career Academic Grants for scholars from Commonwealth countries to travel to conferences
• African women in science should apply for the Kwame Nkrumah Regional Scientific Awards for Women
• The African Academy of Sciences is looking for early-career affiliates
• 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 University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars program offers six-month residential fellowships to African professors
• 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 UK Collaborative on Development Sciences lists a number of calls for proposals

Training

• The Swedish Management Institute Program Africa offers a partially-funded business training course for African citizens
• The European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes offers a mentorship program for academics from low income countries
• The AquayaLEARN fellowship offers three months of training in data visualization for Kenyan MA and PhD students
• The Mekatilili Fellowship Program offers three days of design training to fellows in Nairobi
• The Hubert Humphrey Fellowship Program offers training to young and mid-career professionals from countries around the world
• The Archbishop Tutu Leadership Fellowship Programme offers leadership skills training to young people from across Africa
• The Peace and Security Fellowship for African Women is run by the Africa Leadership Centre
• The UN Fellowship Programme for People of African Descent offers training in human rights
• The British Institute in Eastern Africa runs a summer school in research methods
• The African Studies Review Pipeline for Emerging African Scholars program offers a weeklong workshop on the publication process
• The LSE-UCT July School offers bursaries for African nationals
• 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
• Thomas Gale scholarships for students from the US and Kenya who would like to attend the SOAS Academic Summer School
• TechWomen is a USAID program which offers training and mentorship to female leaders in STEM fields
• 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
• 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
• The Aspen New Voices Fellowship offers a year-long training program for development experts from low-income countries in Africa and elsewhere
• The Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, through the US State Department
• Yale’s Young African Scholars Program is a weeklong leadership program for secondary school students from Ghana and Ethiopia