CODESRIA African Fellowships for Research on Indigenous and Alternative Knowledge (AFRIAK) 2025 – YOA

Deadline: May 15, 2025

Applications are open for the CODESRIA African Fellowships for Research on Indigenous and Alternative Knowledge (AFRIAK) 2025. The programme is obtainable with the help of the Mastercard Foundation as part of the Foundation’s dedication to selling the schooling and abilities of younger folks in Africa, and in recognition of the contribution of the late Ghanaian mental Sulley Gariba to the valorisation of African information in analysis and analysis.

This program goals to implement an revolutionary strategy to coaching a brand new technology of youth in analysis undertaking design and information manufacturing, by way of a partnership between tutorial mentors and Indigenous information holders. This strategy will focus on native, indigenous and endogenous information as information types or methods which are deeply rooted in communities and intently linked to their lived experiences. Although these types of information could also be geographically near younger folks in Africa, they continue to be inaccessible to them partly as a result of predominance of Western studying methods within the college and college curricula and partly as a result of gerontocratic nature of our communities, the place this information is preserved for a number of information holders. primarily males. This strategy is revolutionary in that it encourages us to make use of what we’ve got in our communities and to understand the numerous methods by which what we’ve got in our communities is used, preserved and disseminated.

Fellowship

• The fellowship covers induction, mid-time period internship, fieldwork, dissemination actions, and submit-fellowship actions, throughout which alumni will contribute to a neighborhood of apply in indigenous and different information methods. Fellows can be grouped into groups of seven, accompanied by two Indigenous/native information holders and an educational mentor. The conceptualization of the analysis, its execution, and dissemination approaches can be co-developed by the youth fellows, tutorial mentors, and Indigenous information holders. The length of the fellowship, together with fieldwork and dissemination, can be seven months. Throughout the length of the fellowship, analysis groups will profit from mentorship and help from mental hubs, which can be recognized and constituted by CODESRIA with a view to strengthen mental and neighborhood engagement.

Eligibility

• Open to younger folks between the ages of 24 and 35 who’re engaged in analysis and information manufacturing actions which are impressed, or have the ambition to be impressed, by the views of indigenous/native information.
• The focused youth should be connected to formal analysis and information establishments or analysis centres on indigenous information in Africa.
• Practitioners with formal instructing {qualifications}, who’re engaged in actions that rely on the application of indigenous/native information views, are additionally inspired to apply.

Application

Individual and joint functions can be accepted

Individual functions should submit the next:

• A one-web page CV that features date of beginning, present employment/engagement, and institutional affiliation.
• A two-web page idea be aware that introduces a subject, explains how the subject suits right into a precedence space outlined by CODESRIA, justifies the selection of matter and its persuasiveness, and summarizes the primary steps the subject needs to take to realize the outcomes of the analysis and fellowship course of.
• A one-web page reference letter written by two folks accustomed to the applicant’s work.

Joint functions (most 7 folks) should submit the next:

• A one-web page CV for every member of the group, to be submitted in a consolidated doc. Each CV ought to embrace, amongst different particulars, date of beginning, present employment/engagement, and institutional affiliation. The Principal Investigator or Group Leader should be clearly marked on the prime of all CVs
• A two-web page idea be aware that introduces a subject, explains how the subject suits right into a precedence space outlined by CODESRIA, justifies the selection of matter and demonstrates its persuasiveness, and summarizes the primary steps the group intends to take to realize the outcomes of the analysis and fellowship course of
• Two letters of reference that particularly help the group, relatively than particular person members

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For extra data, go to CODESRIA.