Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program for African-Born Scholars

The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship is open for application from interested scholars of African background to take advantage of the opportunity to be trained and equipped for future endeavours. The Fellowship is a scholar fellowship program for educational projects at African higher education institutions.

Applications for the fellowship must meet the minimum requirement for the award of the fellowship. Potential opportunities to apply for supplemental funding to cover knowledge production activities and workshop attendance will also be available.

Fellowship Sponsor(s): Carnegie Corporation of New York

Host Institution(s): Participating institutions in Africa

Fellowship Type: Fully Funded

 
Number of Awards: Several

Study level: Pre-doctoral

Nationality: African-born students

Eligibility Criteria for Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship

To be eligible to apply for the CADFP, the applicant must:

• Have been born in any African country, as shown by the biographical data in the applicant’s passport.
• Applicant must hold a terminal degree with good grades
• Be employed at an accredited college or University.
• Applicant must be willing to be enrolled in the fellowship which is to be held at the United States of America
• Applicant must show great leadership potential as evidenced in their community engagement.
• Applicants are to submit as part of their application, personal statements and information about their academic qualifications, disciplinary expertise and administrative experience.
• Applicants are to submit a letter of recommendation from a Dean or from an administrator of equal or higher level from the scholar’s current institution.

Application Procedure

How-to-apply: Interested applicants for the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship 2022/23 are to note that all applications are online and they should upload copies of relevant certificates and other supporting documents to the application platform before the scholarship application deadline.

Application Deadline: Not specified