Global Africa Translation Fellowship Worth $5,000 from the Africa Institute

The Africa Institute is now accepting applications for the ‘Global Africa Translation Fellowship’. The fellowship welcomes applications from across the Global South for a grant of up to $5,000 to complete translations of works from the African continent and its diaspora, into English or Arabic.

The fellowship provides funding in the range of $1,000 to $5,000, depending on the quality and breadth of the project. 

• Selected projects may be retranslations of old, classic texts, or previously untranslated works, collections of poetry, prose, or critical theory. 
• The project may be a work-in-progress, or a new project feasible for completion within the timeframe of the grant.
• This is a non-residential fellowship which allows the recipient scholar to complete the work outside of The Africa Institute (Sharjah, UAE).

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Selection Criteria:-

• All applications will be reviewed by The Africa Institute’s faculty and research fellows. 
• Recipients will be chosen based on the quality of the proposal, and the demonstrated capacity of the applicant to complete the project.

About the Africa Institute:-

The Africa Institute is an interdisciplinary academic research institute dedicated to the study, research and documentation of Africa, its people and its cultures; its complex past, present and future; and its manifold connections with the wider world. Established in 2018, The Africa Institute in Sharjah, UAE, is dedicated to the study, research, and documentation of Africa and the African diaspora. The Institute is expanding public understanding of Arab and African exchange within not only the scholarly community but also the local Sharjah community, the region, and around the globe.

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