The African Futures Lab (AfaLab) Rise Fellowship Program 2025/2027 – Opportunities For Africans

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Application Deadline: 31 July 2025. 

Applications at the moment are open for the 2025/2027 African Futures Lab (AfaLab) Rise Fellowship Program. Founded by two Black ladies, Liliane Umubyeyi and Amah Edoh, in response to the worldwide counting on racial injustice following the 2020 Black Lives Matter motion, African Futures Lab advances reparative justice by way of analysis, advocacy, and cross-continental solidarity.

This dynamic program is designed to spark and assist daring initiatives tackling racial justice and reparations throughout Africa and Europe. Whether you’ree dreaming of writing a guide, launching a podcast, weaving become your group, or curating a transformative artwork exhibition – that is your house to convey these concepts to life. We are right here to ignite and nurture tasks that have interaction deeply with decolonization, racial justice, and reparations.

Fellowship construction

Duration: 2 years (2025-2027)

Format: Fully digital with bi-monthly on-line conferences

Core Components

1. Strategic reflections by way of peer data trade: Bi-monthly convenings to research developments on tasks, construct responses, and adapt technique.
2. Strengthening intersectional data on racial justice and reparations: Fellow-led programming on race and reparations and its hyperlink with gender, decoloniality, local weather, AI, financial, and rising justice points.
3. Collaborative outputs: The fellowship program is an area to provoke collaborations among the many fellows or between the lab and the fellows. 
4. Public illustration: Fellows might signify AfaLab in multilateral occasions, regional, or civil society areas.
5. Alumni integration: Ongoing Opportunities for publication, occasions and strategic collaboration.

Benefits

• A vibrant circle of friends and consultants able to trade concepts, problem assumptions, and assist form your imaginative and prescient to your undertaking. 
• Access to the African Futures Lab community, providing precious connections and assist to maneuver your undertaking ahead.
• Opportunities to showcase your work by way of our conferences and podcast platforms, amplifying your voice and attain.
• Possibilities for collaboration with our group as a result of we imagine in co-creating impression.
• A stipend of €200 per working session, recognizing and supporting your dedication to the undertaking.

Requirements

Target group

Activists, practitioners, researchers and artists engaged on tasks tied to decoloniality, racial justice and reparations based mostly in Africa and Europe. 

Required {qualifications}

• Demonstrated dedication to racial justice throughout any related thematic (gender, local weather, economics, and many others.)
• A undertaking at a really preliminary part aiming at dismantling racial injustices throughout Africa and Europe / at a worldwide scale
• Contextual understanding of Africa, Europe, or Afro-diasporic communities.
• Visionary, collaborative, and modern strategy to social change.

Desirable property

• Multilingual (particularly French and English)
• Cross-sectoral, interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary expertise

Evaluation and interviews
Applications might be assessed for advantage, thematic match, and variety. Shortlisted candidates might be invited to on-line interviews.

Final Selection

Eight fellows might be chosen to signify numerous geographies and thematic strengths.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the African Futures Lab (AfaLab) Rise Fellowship Program