The Africa Institute Global Africa Translation Fellowship 2026 (up to $5,000) – YOA

Deadline: March 12, 2026

Applications are open for the Africa Institute Global Africa Translation Fellowship 2026. As part of its African Languages and Translation Program, The Africa Institute invites purposes for the Global Africa Translation Fellowship.

This non-residential fellowship permits recipients to undertake their work outdoors The Africa Institute, Global Studies University (Sharjah, UAE). The fellowship goals to make important texts in African and African Diaspora research accessible to a wider international readership.

Benefits

• Funding will vary from $1,000 to $5,000, relying on the scope and high quality of the proposed mission. 

Eligibility

• Open to candidates from throughout the Global South.
• Eligible tasks might embody retranslations of basic texts, beforehand untranslated works, poetry, prose, or collections of important concept.
• Projects could also be both works-in-progress or newly conceived works possible for completion inside the fellowship interval.

Selection Process

• Applications can be reviewed by The Africa Institute’s college and analysis fellows. Selection can be primarily based on the standard of the proposal and the applicant’s demonstrated capability to full the mission. Funding can be disbursed in two installments: the primary on the outset of the mission, and the second upon its completion. Recipients are required to submit a replica of the finished translation for archival functions. The translation is not going to be revealed or used for another functions with out the awardee’s consent.

Application

Application requires:

• A two-web page CV/résumé together with institutional affiliation, academic {qualifications} (highest diploma acquired), and key publications or works produced.
• A two-web page abstract (single-spaced, font 12) describing:
  • the interpretation to be undertaken through the fellowship interval,
  • the importance of the work,
  • justification for a re-translation, if relevant, and
  • proposed dates of completion (Projects could also be works-in-progress or new tasks possible inside the grant timeframe).
• A 4–5-web page pattern (double-spaced, font 12) of the unique textual content(s) alongside the interpretation.
• An rationalization of copyright standing:
  • If the work is just not within the public area, embody a replica of the copyright discover from the unique textual content, and a letter from the copyright holder confirming that English-language rights can be found.

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For extra info, go to Global Africa Translation Fellowship.