African Future Lab AfaRise Fellowship 2025-2027 – YOA

Deadline: July 31, 2025

Applications are open for the African Future Lab AfaRise Fellowship 2025-2027. The African Futures Lab advances reparative justice by way of analysis, advocacy, and cross-continental solidarity. Their mission is rooted in dismantling the enduring legacies of colonialism and slavery, holding state and personal actors accountable, and supporting African and Afro-descendant communities to reclaim reality, dignity, and energy.

The fellowship aligns with the African Union’s 2025 declaration because the Year of Justice for Africans and People of African Descent Through Reparations – a pivotal second to drive daring advocacy in a time of rising authoritarianism, world inequality, and fractured solidarity.

While curiosity in reparations for racial injustices and decoloniality grows, African actors stay beneath-resourced, disconnected, and sidelined. AfaRise addresses this hole by cultivating a cohort of racial justice movers geared up to behave regionally and globally from an African and Afro-diasporic lens.

Responsibilities

• Engage in common digital gatherings and information-sharing classes.
• Give common replace on the development of their undertaking
• Prepare a ultimate presentation of their undertaking

Benefits

• A vibrant circle of friends and consultants able to change concepts, problem assumptions, and assist form your imaginative and prescient to your undertaking. 
• Access to the African Futures Lab community, providing worthwhile connections and help 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 staff as a result of we imagine in co-creating influence.
• A stipend of €200 per working session, recognizing and supporting your dedication to the undertaking.

Eligibility

• Open to activists, practitioners, researchers and artists engaged on initiatives tied to decoloniality, racial justice and reparations primarily based in Africa and Europe. 
• Demonstrated dedication to racial justice throughout any related thematic (gender, local weather, economics, and many others.)
• A undertaking at a really preliminary section aiming at dismantling racial injustices throughout Africa and Europe / at a world scale
• Contextual understanding of Africa, Europe, or Afro-diasporic communities.
• Visionary, collaborative, and modern strategy to social change.

Desirable Assets

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

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to AfaRise Fellowship.