African Scholarship
Our grantmaking works to strengthen higher education in Africa by improving the training, retention, and research productivity of academics in select countries in sub-Saharan Africa with the aim of nurturing African academics within dynamic and supportive university environments.
- ReadLocal Problems, Local Expertise: Addressing Urban Accessibility and Mobility Issues in South Africa
With Corporation support, Hazminei Tsitsi Tamuka Moyo considers how South African cities can address urban accessibility and mobility issues and the marginalizing consequences of past city planning
Carnegie Reporter Fall 2023African Academics
- ReadMeet Nana Aba Appiah Amfo
Early in her career, Nana Aba Appiah Amfo received a research fellowship through the Corporation-supported African Humanities Program. In a landmark appointment, she has become the first female vice-chancellor of the University of Ghana
Carnegie Reporter Winter 2022African Academics
- ReadInvesting in the Development of Early Career Research Leaders in Africa
How a Corporation-supported program at University of Pretoria’s Future Africa Institute has helped develop postdoctoral researchers working across perspectives, countries, and disciplines to meet the continent’s challenges
African Academics
- ReadA Decade of Strengthening Higher Education and Research Capacity in Africa
The Corporation has invested $134.43 million to help the continent develop and retain the next generation of African academics, build connections between members of the African academic diaspora and African universities, and facilitate higher education policy and research
African Academics - ReadTransforming African Higher Education
The Corporation's Claudia Frittelli reviews a landmark collection of essays that offers fresh perspectives on decolonizing the curriculum
Carnegie Reporter Spring 2021African Academics
- African ArtsVisual Activism in Africa: The New Storytellers
Scholars and practitioners of the arts all across the continent are transforming the ways their histories, past and present, are told
Carnegie Reporter Winter 2019African Academics - ForumThe Role of the Diaspora in African Higher Education and Research
A 2019 forum addresses the practical implementation of improving higher education and building education coalitions with the African diaspora
African Academic Diaspora - African HumanitiesGlobalizing Knowledge
The African Humanities Program makes rigorous research from the continent available to a global academic readership through its African Humanities Series
African Higher Education Policy