Sawaba Fellowship 2026 (stipend available) – YOA

Deadline: April 24, 2026

Applications are open for the Sawaba Fellowship 2026. The Sawaba fellowship, hosted by Liberation Alliance Africa, creates house for researchers, thinkers, artists, practitioners, activists, writers, journalists, and neighborhood organisers to interact in reflection and expertise-primarily based discourse, analysis, and information manufacturing on key subjects in pursuit of decolonial feminist futures.

The Sawaba fellowship embodies scholarly elements and private and collective explorations on liberation, important consciousness, and anti-colonial feminist solidarity. Four fellows of African descent who reside on the continent might be chosen. The fellowship will start with a 3-day residential retreat in an accessible location on the African continent.

2026 Fellowship Theme: Not Pioneers of an Empty Land

Liberation Alliance Africa invites fellows to discover their follow guided by the theme, “Not Pioneers of an Empty Land”. This theme constitutes a direct confrontation with the colonial authorized and psychological fantasy that the world was empty earlier than European enlargement, and it encourages explorations that reinforce and exalt reality over colonial lies and logics. These colonial myths present up in present practices as a rejection of collective realizing and flourishing, and despair. This rejection casts us as brokers of our personal erasure, significantly within the age of digital and social media, the place humanity, consideration and dignity are more and more monetised, feeding the race to be a lone voice, a topic-matter knowledgeable, a lone pioneer, a information magician conjuring concepts from skinny air.

Not Pioneers of an Empty Land acknowledges the ancestral preservation of reminiscence, tales, genealogies, and histories which have existed and live on. This fellowship invites us to suppose past colonial epistemic, political, emotional, and psychological borders and to reclaim the shared kingdoms, mutual pursuits, and ecological stewardship that existed lengthy earlier than the cartography of dispossession and the imposition of the nation-states.

Benefits

• Fellows will obtain a USD $500 month-to-month stipend in the course of the fellowship to cowl challenge bills.

Eligibility

• Fellows could also be artists, lecturers, journalists, documentarians, thinkers, playwrights, poets, architects, city planners, novelists, cultural staff, or practitioners in different fields.
• They are important and futurist voices with deep evaluation of normative ideas resembling justice, equality, rights, local weather, id, and neighborhood, transcending the constraints of up to date thought and discourse.
• Successful candidates might be deeply rooted in decolonial feminist politics, anti-imperialist solidarity, feminist world-constructing, and epistemic liberation, whereas being effectively-versed in regional and world points.

Application

The fellowship application might be despatched to [email protected]. This requires a canopy letter, a portfolio, a challenge description (most of three pages) and a draft challenge price range.

Fellowship purposes should be obtained no later than twenty fourth April 2026

For extra data, go to Sawaba Fellowship.