✊🏾 AfaRise Fellowship Program 2025–2027

🔔 Applications now open | Deadline: 31 July 2025

The AfaRise Fellowship is a powerful, fully virtual 2-year program launched by the African Futures Lab (AfaLab), created to elevate visionary researchers, artists, and activists committed to dismantling racial injustice across Africa and the global Afro-diaspora.

Rooted in reparatory justice, Afro-feminist leadership, and decolonial praxis, the fellowship equips changemakers to not only influence policy—but to reshape the very narratives and systems upholding racial inequality.

🧭 Program Overview

• Duration: 2 years (2025–2027)
• Format: Fully virtual
• Sessions: Bi-monthly interactive convenings
• Stipend: €200 per working session

🎯 Core Components

• Peer learning: Bi-monthly strategy and progress reflection sessions
• Thematic development: Programming led by fellows on race, reparations, gender, climate, and economic justice
• Collaborative projects: Joint outputs with fellows or AfaLab team
• Public exposure: Representation at major civil society and policy events
• Alumni engagement: Ongoing publishing and collaboration opportunities

🌟 What You Gain

• A bold community of pan-African and diasporic thinkers and doers
• Access to AfaLab’s cross-continental network and platforms
• Support to launch or elevate a justice-focused project (e.g., podcast, publication, art, research)
• Potential to co-create long-term impact
• Financial recognition via per-session stipend

🧑🏾‍🤝‍🧑🏿 Who Can Apply?

Target Group:

• Early-stage activists, researchers, artists, or practitioners from Africa or Europe
• Working on projects connected to racial justice, reparations, or decolonial work

Eligibility Criteria:

• Commitment to dismantling racial injustice in fields like gender, climate, economy, etc.
• Visionary project at an early stage
• Lived or contextual understanding of African, European, or Afro-descendant communities
• Strong collaboration mindset

Bonus Skills (Not Mandatory):

• Multilingualism (especially French/English)
• Cross-sectoral or interdisciplinary approach

📝 Selection Process

• Shortlisting: Based on merit, project relevance, diversity
• Interviews: Virtual interviews for shortlisted candidates
• Final Fellows: 8 fellows selected to represent diverse geographies and themes

🔚 Final Thoughts

The AfaRise Fellowship is not just a program—it’s a platform for justice-driven visionaries to grow, connect, and mobilize. If you’re ready to amplify your impact in racial justice, reparations, and decolonial advocacy, this is your space.

📥 Apply before 31 July 2025
🔗 Click here to apply