African Liberty Writing Fellowship for Young Writers 2022

 The African Liberty Writing Fellowship program is a year-long program designed to train young Africans interested in the academia, media, public policy, or any other critical-and-analytical-writing-related career, in opinion article writing.

Accepted applicants will complete a five-week mandatory online course. The top thirty-five candidates from the five-week training will be admitted as African Liberty Writing Fellows.

Program start date is July 11, 2022, and end date is July 11, 2023. The program, from the 5-week training to the last day of fellowship, is done entirely online.

Are you a young African interested in the academia, media, public policy, or any other critical-and-analytical-writing-related field? This is an opportunity for you to be trained in the art of opinion article writing and even get paid for writing.

About African Liberty

African Liberty was founded in 2007 as a project of the Cato Institute and IMANI Africa, thereafter the Atlas Network. It is a platform for advancing individual freedom, peace, and prosperity in Africa by promoting civil discussion and debate about social, legal, economic, and world issues affecting Africans. We identify and train young promising African freedom advocates in professional journalistic writing and help them kickstart careers in journalism and policy by working with Africa-focused think tanks and partner media outlets. We produce and promote original rep... read more

African Liberty Writing Fellowship

Aim and Benefits of African Liberty Writing Fellowship

• This is a paid fellowship. Compensation is contingent upon a monthly assessment. Please beware that they do not consider financial compensation until a fellow is inducted.

Requirements for African Liberty Writing Fellowship Qualification

• An applicant has to be enrolled in, or must have graduated from, an African institution of higher learning. Or, be an African pursuing higher education outside the continent.

Application Deadline

How to Apply

For more details,visit African Liberty website