Deadline: 12 January, 2023
The Ashinaga Africa Initiative (AAI) scholarship for 2024 is now open.
AAI supports orphaned students who are committed to returning home and initiating change, by providing access to full financial support to study at a university abroad (equivalent to an undergraduate degree).
Benefits
- Ashinaga support covers tuition, accommodation, travel costs, and other necessary fees
Eligibility
- Applicants must have lost one or both parents
- Applicants must have completed secondary school and received the results of their national secondary school examinations (technical and vocational degrees not accepted) within the last two years (any date after 01 August 2021, including all of 2022 and 2023) or will have completed secondary school and received final exam results before 09 February, 2024
- Applicants must be born after 01 September, 2001
- Applicants must not have the means to attend university abroad without external financial support
- Applicants must be proficient in English, French , or Portuguese
- Applicants must be regularly ranked in the top 10 percent of their class during their last two or three years of secondary school
- Applicants must be able to participate in the two Ashinaga preparatory programmes over the course of one year before attending university
- Applicants must be committed to return home, or to Sub-Saharan Africa, and contribute to society in Sub-Saharan Africa after graduating from university
- Applicants must have no dependents who could interfere with academic progress
- Applicants must have a good enough health condition to be able to study abroad
To apply and for more information, click here.
Photo source: Yale Young African Scholars
