CODESRIA/Mastercard Foundation African Fellowships for Research in Indigenous & Alternative Knowledges.

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Application Deadline: May 15, 2025

Applications are actually open for the 2025 CODESRIA/Mastercard Foundation African Fellowships for Research in Indigenous & Alternative Knowledges. The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is happy to announce a name for proposals for a brand new analysis and scholarship program, the  African Indigenous and Alternative Knowledge Scholarships (AFRIAK). This program is obtainable with the help of the Mastercard Foundation as part of the Foundation’s dedication to selling youth schooling and abilities in Africa, and in recognition of the contribution of the late Ghanaian scholar Sulley Gariba to the promotion of African information in analysis and analysis.

Requirements

• This name is geared toward younger folks aged 24 to 35 years previous, engaged in analysis and information manufacturing actions that draw, or intention to attract, on indigenous/native information views.
• Targeted younger folks ought to be affiliated with formal analysis and information establishments or indigenous information analysis facilities in Africa. Practitioners with formal instructing {qualifications}, who’re engaged in actions that draw on the application of indigenous/native information views, are additionally inspired to apply. 
  Up  to 70% of the youth chosen for the fellowship will likely be younger girls . 
• Applicants ought to specify their analysis space/theme of curiosity, in line with the CODESRIA precedence areas recognized above.

Fellowship Details

• The fellowship covers induction, midterm internship, fieldwork, dissemination actions, and post-fellowship actions, throughout which former fellows will contribute to a group of observe in Indigenous and different information programs.
• Fellows will likely be grouped into groups of seven, accompanied by two Indigenous/native information holders and a tutorial mentor. Research conceptualization, execution, and dissemination approaches will likely be developed collectively by the junior fellows, tutorial mentors, and Indigenous information holders. The period of the fellowship, together with fieldwork and dissemination, will likely be seven months.
• Throughout the fellowship, analysis groups will obtain mentorship and help from mental hubs, which will likely be recognized and established by CODESRIA to strengthen mental and group engagement.

Application procedures

Individual and joint purposes will likely be accepted.

Individual purposes should submit the next: –

• A one-page CV specifying, amongst different issues, date of delivery, present employment/engagement and institutional affiliation.
• A two-page idea word that introduces a subject, explains how the subject matches right into a precedence space outlined by CODESRIA, justifies the selection of the subject and its compelling nature, and summarizes the principle steps the applicant needs to take to realize the outcomes of the analysis and scholarship course of.
• A one-page reference letter written by two folks conversant in the applicant’s work.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the CODESRIA African Fellowships for Research in Indigenous & Alternative Knowledges.