I’ve just updated my lists of scholarships for African students, and research funding for African academics.  My scholarships landing page is here.  Check out some of the newly added opportunities below.  Unfortunately the deadlines have already passed for some of them, but if that’s the case, do bookmark them for next year.

• The Mandela Rhodes Foundation supports African students doing postgrad studies at South Africa universities
• The World Bank’s PASET Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund offers PhD funding for African students in STEM fields
• The University of Ghana is offering PhD fellowships in the humanities
• Windle Trust offers BA scholarships for Sudanese students affected by conflict, and MA scholarships for students from a range of conflict-affected countries
• Higherlife Foundation in Zimbabwe offers BA and PhD fellowships
• The Inter-University Council for East Africa occasionally posts scholarship opportunities
• The Centre for Innovative Drug Development and Therapeutic Trials for Africa is offering PhD scholarships for African women
• KAS Media Africa offers funding for postgraduate degrees in journalism at the University of the Witswatersrand
• VLIR-UOS offers funding for students from a range of low income countries to do MA studies in Belgium
• University College London’s Institute for Global Health has a number of scholarships available for African students pursuing MSc study
• The University of Manchester’s Global Development Institute offers MSc scholarships for students from Ghana, Kenya, Zambia and Zimbabwe
• The Rhodes Trust supports African students studying at Oxford
• The Association of Commonwealth Universities’ Queen Elizabeth Scholarships support students from low income countries doing MAs in the UK
• The SHARE Fellowship supports students from low income countries doing the MBA at Thunderbird School of Management
• The Aga Khan Foundation offers support to students from low income countries doing MA and PhD programs abroad
• The OPEC Fund for International Development provides MA funding to students from low income countries
• The World Academy of Sciences’ DFG Cooperation Visits Program offers funding for African researchers to pursue short-term stays at German universities
• The AAA Fellowship at the University of Konstanz offers a three- to six-month postdoc for researchers from Africa, Asia and Latin America
• 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 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