Speaking from Experience: How to Land a Highly Competitive Scholarship

About this opportunity

Petronella Munhenzva will be appearing on the David Chikwaza- Global South Indaba on Tuesday the 14th of February 2023. The indaba will be our first and special Edition of the David Chikwaza- Global South Indaba, "Speaking from Experience: How to Land a Highly Competitive Scholarship" series. On the panel, Petronella will be joined by Cephas Svosve who is currently doing his doctoral studies in Maths at the University of Oxford, Eric Ngang of Birmingham University and US based Lola Aojutiku. All of these panellists have won some of the most highly competitive scholarships awarded by very prestigious institutions including Oxford University and the Rhodes Scholarship program. Petronella Munhenzva is a research consultant, speaker and author. She recently finished her MPhil graduate studies at Oxford University. She holds Honours and Masters degrees from the University of Zimbabwe. She is currently serving as one of the Coordinators for the Africa Working Group with (Young Scholars Initiative (YSI). With YSI, she has organised conferences in Los Angeles (USA), Washington DC (USA), Bologna (Italy), Ibadan (Nigeria), Edinburgh (Scotland), among many others. She is also an academic writer with academic publications. Petronella is someone to look forward to on the Indaba platform come Tuesday the 14th. Born on 1 November 1994, in a deep remote rural district of Zimbabwe and ending up at Oxford University, Petronella's story is something to draw inspiration and audacity