The Africa Institute Global Africa Translation Fellowship 2025: (Deadline 17 April, 2025)

As part of its African Languages and Translation Program, The Africa Institute invites applications to the fifth cohort of the Global Africa Translation Fellowship for the year 2025. 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 (other languages are considered).

This is a non-residential fellowship that allows the recipient scholar to complete the work outside of The Africa Institute (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.

Funding

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

Eligibility

• Applications are welcome from across the Global South.
• 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.

Deadline: 17 April, 2025

Application

Application requirements include:

• A two-page CV/résumé including institutional affiliation, educational qualifications, including highest degree received, and key publications/works produced
•  A two-page summary (single-spaced, font 12) 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, font 12) 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, 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: GATF_LASTNAME-FIRSTNAME.pdf.

Use the same name in the email subject heading GATF_LASTNAME-FIRSTNAME application and send PDF as an email attachment to applications@theafricainstitute.org.

For more information, visit Global Africa Translation Fellowship.