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The Africa Institute Global Africa Translation Fellowship 2024 (up to $ 5000): (Deadline 1 June 2024)
The Global Africa Translation Fellowship 2024 is a non-residential opportunity that enables the awarded scholar to finalize their work away from The Africa Institute in Sharjah, UAE. The aim of the fellowship is to make important texts in African and African Diaspora studies accessible to a wider readership across the world.
Selected projects may be retranslations of old, classic texts, previously untranslated works, poetry, prose, or critical theory collections. The project may be a work-in-progress, or a new project feasible for completion within the timeframe of the grant.
Benefits
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The fellowship provides funding in the range of $1,000 to $5,000, depending on the quality and breadth of the project.
Eligibility of Global Africa Translation Fellowship 2024
- Application are welcomes applications from across the Global South.
- Grant request should be to complete translations of works from the African continent and its diaspora, into English or Arabic.
- Selected projects may be retranslations of old, classic texts, previously untranslated works, poetry, prose, or critical theory collections. The project may be a work-in-progress, or a new project feasible for completion within the timeframe of the grant.
Application for Global Africa Translation Fellowship 2024
Applications must include:
- A two-page CV/résumé including institutional affiliation, educational qualifications, including highest degree received, and key publications/works produced
- A two-page narrative explaining the translation to be undertaken during the fellowship period, an explanation of the importance of the work, a justification for a re-translation, if applicable, and proposed dates of completion. The project may be a work-in-progress or a new project that fits within the timeframe of the grant.
- A 4–5-page (double-spaced) sample of the original text(s) and translation.
- An explanation of the work’s copyright status: If the work is not in the public domain, please include a copy of the copyright notice from the original text, and a letter from the copyright holder stating that English language rights to the work are available.
Submitted applications must include a statement, sample, copyright status (if applicable), and CV, in that order into a single PDF file.
Name the file with the applicant’s name in this format: LASTNAME-FIRSTNAME.pdf. Use the same name in the email subject heading LASTNAME-FIRSTNAME application and send PDF as an email attachment to [email protected].
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