I recently updated my lists of grants for African students doing MAs or PhDs, and for postdoctoral, research, and travel funding for African scholars.   Please circulate widely!

Some of the new additions:

• The Robert S. McNamara Fellowship at the World Bank provides research funding to PhD students from low income countries
• The Women for Africa Foundation is funding visiting researcher positions for African women at scientific centers of excellence in Spain
• The African-German Network for Excellence in Sciences offers a mobility grant for junior African researchers
• 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
• MOUNAF offers scholarships for students doing MA or PhD study in Africa
• There are a variety of scholarships for non-European students who would like to do undergraduate or graduate study in Holland
• The University of Delaware Borel Fellows program offers scholarships for MA study in agriculture to African students
• The Obama Foundation Scholars program offers fellowships for the MA in International Development Policy at UChicago
• The Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World offers four-year PhD funding for study at a variety of institutions