Online Fellowship Programme for African Journalists from African Arguments

The African Arguments Pilot Online Fellowship is now available for Young Freelancers. The African Arguments fellowship is a mentorship and training programme for young freelancers based on the continent. It is aimed at African journalists under the age of 30 who are committed to building the skills necessary for a sustainable career as a freelancer.

The fellowship is designed to fit into (rather than disrupt) the chosen journalists’ already busy schedules and help them develop through two key ways:

• Firstly, the fellows will be guaranteed three paid commissions that they will work on with dedicated one-on-one mentoring from the African Arguments editors. With generous and experienced guidance, the journalists will be supported in producing engaging, balanced, original work of the highest quality on topics of their choice. The finished pieces will be published and heavily promoted on African Arguments (with opportunities for republication elsewhere).
• Secondly, the fellows will receive a series of expert-led online training over the course of three months. These devoted and intimate sessions will help the freelancers learn from experienced leaders in the field, share ideas, and develop key freelancing skills such as pitching, securing funding, writing for international audiences etc. It may also include additional training arranged to cater to the chosen fellows’ specific needs or interests.

• Students must commit to attending all online training sessions and complete all commissioned pieces.
• This program is entirely free and will be conducted in English.
• This fellowship is for freelancers under the age of 30 based in Africa. 
• African Arguments is looking for journalists still relatively early in their careers who are excited to learn and grow, who are able to challenge and be challenged, and who are committed to working collaboratively to produce original, rigorous and thought-provoking journalism.

About African Arguments:-

African Arguments is a pan-African platform for news, investigation and opinion. African Arguments seeks to analyse issues facing the continent, investigate the stories that matter, and amplify a diversity of voices. African Arguments provides a crucial and unique platform for predominantly African writers to reach a predominantly African, and international, audience. Over two-thirds of African Arguments’ authors are of African descent, as are the majority of its readers. African Arguments also hosts the sub-section Debating Ideas, which offers more academic discussions around the African Arguments book series.

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