Mandela Rhodes Scholarship 2025-2026 for Young Africans – YOA

Deadline: April 21, 2025

Applications are open for the Mandela Rhodes Scholarship 2025-2026. The Mandela Rhodes Scholarship is a life-altering management journey. The scholarship combines monetary help with a management programme that can problem you, develop you, and join you to younger African changemakers – similar to you.

The programme is constructed on the founding ideas of reconciliation, training, entrepreneurship, and management, and a perception that management begins with internal transformation. The Mandela Rhodes Foundation goals to maintain Nelson Mandela’s legacy alive by equipping younger African leaders with the competence and braveness to rework the continent into a spot the place everybody has equal OPPORTUNITY to thrive. Their programme is delivered primarily by means of a sequence of week-lengthy residential workshops which you’ll attend throughout your time in residence.

Scholarship

• Tuition and registration charges as set by your college or establishment
• A study supplies allowance as set by the MRF
• Accommodation and meal allowances as set by the MRF
• A medical assist allowance as set by the MRF
• A private allowance as set by the MRF
• Research and conferencing grants will be made obtainable on request
• Economy-class flights for worldwide students from their home international locations to their establishments initially and finish of their research

Eligibility

• You can study at a postgraduate stage in English;
• You are citizen of an African nation;
• You are between the ages of 19 and 29;
• You may have an undergraduate diploma with glorious outcomes (above 70% or higher-second class Honours) by January 1, 2026
• You aspire to be an moral chief and are dedicated to utilizing your skills to advance equality, freedom and human dignity in Africa;
• You admire Nelson Mandela’s potential to bridge divides and convey individuals collectively round our widespread humanity;
• You are ready to mirror deeply by yourself management and endure a course of of non-public change and development.

Selection Criteria

They look for younger leaders who aspire to the ideas under and who’ve demonstrated the potential to reside them out.

• Leadership: Do you aspire to be a visionary chief who has ethical authority? Do you see management as extra than simply private ambition – as a strategy to pursue the development of equality and freedom, human rights and human dignity? And do you wish to information and encourage others to succeed in their full potential?
• Reconciliation: Do you imagine that reconciliation – mixed with reparation – is the important thing to harnessing an imperfect previous to develop a extra simply world? And are you ready to begin the method by your individual inside panorama?
• Education: Do you will have glorious tutorial outcomes however imagine that your training shouldn’t solely profit you however make a difference for others? And do you agree that mental excellence have to be accompanied by character and a rounded character?
• Entrepreneurship: Do you wish to see Africa take its rightful place as an equal and aggressive presence within the international world? Have you demonstrated particular person effort, innovation and creativity to this finish?

Application

The deadline is 21 April 2025, by which period all application documentation must have been uploaded. Your recommenders (referees) should have uploaded their references by then so as for your application to be full.

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For extra info, go to Mandela Rhodes Scholarship.