31+ Opportunities for African Youth: Fellowships, Scholarships, and Jobs to Apply for in March 2025

Are you a young African looking for exciting opportunities to advance your career, education, and research? We’ve compiled 31 amazing fellowships, scholarships, and job openings just for you. Explore these fully funded and paid opportunities and take your career to the next level!

1. Young Africans Research Academy Fellowship Application 2024. Apply: Link
2. African Union ECOSOCC Kenneth Kaunda Graduate Immersion Programme: Call for Applications. Apply: Link
3. DAAD Scholarships and Funding Opportunities for South African and Sub-Saharan African Students and Research. Apply: Link
4. Presidential African Youth in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Competition. Apply: Link
5. African Union Internship Program. Apply: Link
6. Chatham House Mo Ibrahim Foundation Academy Fellowship. Apply: Link
7. LEAP Africa & Hilton Foundation Present: Travel with Purpose Initiative. Apply: Link
8. African Economic Scholars Program. Apply: Link
9. Dr. Lindiwe Makhunga PhD Fieldwork Research Grant & PhD Support Grant 2025. Apply: Link
10. Fellowship Opportunity: Restitution and Reparation in Africa and the Post-Colonial Condition. Apply: Link
11. Empowering African Startups for Global Scale. Apply: Link
12. BBC Komla Dumor Award 2025 launched. Apply: Link
13. Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program 2025/2026. Apply: Link
14. Trainer and Consultant Opportunity for DW Akademie – Paid Remote Position. Apply: Link
15. Research Manager / Associate Research Manager (South Africa) – Youth Impact. Apply: Link
16. Master in African Innovation Leadership (AIL) by Politecnico di Milano & E4Impact Foundation. Apply: Link
17. 5-Day Training Workshop in Senegal on Building Resilient Agriculture Systems. Apply: Link
18. Research Opportunity at The African Institute for Development Policy. Apply: Link
19. African Scholarship Programme: Fully Funded Research Opportunity at the Nordic Africa Institute. Apply: Link
20. Pan African University Special Call for Applications for 2025 scholarships. Apply: Link
21. Travel Grants for the UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3) and the One Ocean Science (OOS) Congress 2025. Apply: Link
22. 2025 Africa-France Young Leaders Program. Apply: Link
23. The Energy and Environment Partnership Trust Fund Africa Call for Proposals. Apply: Link
24. DAAD-Funded PhD Research Scholarship on Land Degradation and Environmental Justice in Africa – University of Bonn, Germany. Apply: Link
25. Apply to be a Climate Finance Specialist at the Africa Adaptation Initiative. Apply: Link
26. 2025 GLF Landscape Leadership Camp In Kenya. Apply: Link
27. WeRise is calling for proposals across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. Apply: Link
28. University of Oxford’s AfOx Health Innovation Program. Apply: Link
29. Africa Economic Research Consortium (AERC) Paid Internship Programme. Apply: Link
30. AU-EU Youth Action Lab Power Shifting Grants. Apply: Link
31. AI for Science: Fully-funded Master’s Degree at AIMS South Africa in Partnership with Google DeepMind. Apply: Link

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