💸 Feb 2025 Opportunities 💸

resources for African meaning-makers (plus a new career workshop!)

Good morning,

Back with another round-up of opportunities for meaning-makers.

These lists are about the opportunities as much as they are about the organisations offering them. They are my way of saying, “Hey, check out these people doing call stuff. You can join them in this way.” I sift through opportunities every day I’m online, and I only share stuff that aligns with this studio’s point, usually the kind of work I’d like to do or support with this studio in the long term.

That’s why I include a longer list of other opportunities boards that serve Africans at the bottom of these newsletters. There’s an Easter egg at the bottom of the email too.

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Jobs & Residencies

• Archivist and Collections Manager, Senior Communications Assistant, Senior Conservator - MOWAA, Global (ongoing)

  The Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) is looking to fill these roles in their team. Interested applicants should possess about six to eight years of relevant work experience and familiarity with archival research methods.

• Growth and Audience Engagement Lead - Comminiqué, Nigeria (ongoing)

  Comminiqué is a media and intelligence firm focused on Africa’s creative economy. They are looking for a Growth and Audience Engagement Lead to grow their audience on all active media channels and improve audience loyalty and love.

• Archives Research Residency - The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Global (Jan 3) 

  The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is dedicated to celebrating new and untested ways of thinking and acting. Submissions were open for their annual Archives Research Residency which would provide selected participants access to the foundation’s archives and support for expenses related to the visit.

• Open Call - FourTwo Creative, Global (ongoing)

  FourTwo Creative is a collective that works to champion Black narratives and create a community of Black creators across the diaspora. They are looking to add new creatives across all disciplines to their directory for future projects.

• Digital Communications Manager - Ouida Books, Nigeria (Feb 14)

  Are you a tech-savvy lover of books who has experience in running social media campaigns? If yes, esteemed publishing house Ouida Books is looking to hire a Digital Communications Manager to join their team!

  
  

Grants & Fellowships

• Silvers Grant for Works in Progress - The Robert B. Silvers Foundation, Global (Mar 31)

  The Robert B. Silvers Foundation is a charitable trust established to support writers of long form writing. The Silvers Grant for Works in Progress provides Anglophone writers the opportunity to receive up to $10,000 to support long-form writing.

• The Chidi Wigwe Prize for African Futurism - 1952 Africa Foundation, Global (Apr 30)

  The 1952 Africa Foundation and the HOW Foundation has announced the inaugural Chidi Wigwe Prize for African Futurism, established in honour of the late Chidi Wigwe. The prize is a $15,000 award to an artist whose work embodies the spirit of African Futurism and aligns with the theme “Africa in 2100”. Applications are open to artists of all mediums.

• Audre Lorde Travel Grant - Spelman College, Global (Mar 1)

  The Spelman Archives is offering two $2,500 travel awards to support PhD students conducting in-person research in the Audre Lorde Papers during Summer 2025.

• documenta archiv Research Fellowship - documenta archiv/Goethe Institut, Global (Feb 27)

  Goethe Institut, the cultural institute of the Republic of Germany is awarding two fellowships to international artists, artists and curators to conduct research in the documenta archiv in Kassel, Germany. The documenta archiv was founded in 1961 by Arnold Bode and is dedicated to the archiving, documentation and research on modern and contemporary art and its sources.

• PhD Grant - IFRA Nigeria, Nigeria (ongoing)

  The French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA) is offering two PhD grants for students at the University of Ibadan interested in the field of Digital Humanities with a focus on Heritage Studies at the Lagos National Museum Archives. Selected candidates will receive up to three years funding and access to IFRA Nigeria’s scholarly platform.

• Fellowship - NXTHVN, USA (Mar 3)

  NXTHVN is an ecosystem that empowers artists, curators and the community through education and cross-sector collaboration. Their annual 10-month fellowship will provide artists access to resources, workspace, developmental sessions, accommodation and many other benefits.

• Call for Proposals - AU-EU Youth Led Summit, Global (Feb 17)

  Are you a young leader between the ages of 18 and 35 with an initiative that is changing your community? The AU-EU Youth Lab is funding youth-led initiatives benefiting underrepresented and marginalized youths in Africa and Europe through Representation Grants. 

• Editorial Fellowship, Tender Photo, Global (Feb 7) 

  Applications are open to writers based in an African country for the second edition of the Tender Photo Editorial Fellowship. The fellowship will include master classes facilitated by Emmanuel Iduma and Ayobami Adebayo and fellows will receive a stipend of 500,000 naira.

• The Alexia Grants - Syracuse University, Global (Feb 17)

  The Alexia promotes the power of visual storytelling to shed light on significant issues around the world. This mission is made possible through grants and scholarships. They have a selection of grants that are listed here.

Submissions

• Call for Submissions, Lọúnlọún, Global (Mar 2)

  Lọúnlọún, a literary journal focused on African historical fiction, is open to fictional work between 2000 to 4000 words from African writers around the world.

• Call for Submissions, Lolwe, Global (ongoing)

  Lolwe is a pan-African magazine focused on amplifying African voices and works. They are currently open to works of drama, orators, translation, hybrid-genre and visual art by Black artists anywhere in the world. Lolwe also offers workshops and masterclasses facilitated by world class experts via the Lolwe Academy.

• Call for Proposals, Pfumo Collective, Global (Feb 14)

  The Pfumo collective is the latest start-up in the African literary landscape and it is seeking to promote creative nonfiction in Africa. Their inaugural project titled CITIZEN is open for non fiction proposal submissions. Ten selected authors would be mentored to complete their pieces. 

• Call for Proposals, Institute for African and Diaspora Studies, Global (ongoing)

  The Institute for African and Diaspora Studies is looking for research and ideas about Lagos city. Abstracts not exceeding 250 words are to be submitted via email to: lagosconference@iads.unilag.edu.ng.

• Call for Submissions, African Foto Fair, Global (ongoing)

  The African Foto Fair is back for its fourth edition and is currently open to submissions of photography from emerging and established photographers all over the world.

• Call for Submissions, Foto Factory Exhibition, Global (Feb 28)

  The Foto Factory Lagos offers a platform for young Nigerian photographers who are looking to exhibit. Ahead of their upcoming exhibition, they are open to submissions centered around the theme “worlds un/making”.

• Open Call for the Enugu Portfolio Review, Enugu Photo Fest, Enugu (ongoing)

  Applications are still ongoing for the Enugu Portfolio Review, a project by the Enugu Photo Fest.

• Call for Submissions, University of Johannesburg Prize for South African Writing, South Africa (Feb 28)

  The University of Johannesburg Prize for South African Writing is accepting submissions for books published in 2024. Submitted works must be authored by South Africans or foreign authors who have resided in South Africa for at least six months while writing their book.

Workshops & Resources

• Moving Ghana - Goethe Institut Ghana, Ghana (ongoing)

  Moving Ghana is a new initiative from Goethe Institut Ghana that supports creative professionals living and working in Ghana with travel support to attend festivals, events or residences within Ghana, Africa and Germany.

• Funding Demystified Handbook, Prince Claus Fund

  The Prince Claus Fund is an independent cultural development foundation. They created this Funding Demystified handbook and workshop guide to help artists through the complexities of securing funding.

  🪄Studio Styles will be running our own Funding Demystified workshop on the last two Saturdays of the month. Sign up here.

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Other recommended opportunities listings: Bubblegum Club’s list, Esohe Iyare’s African Writer Weekly, Open Country Mag’s List of 2024 Opportunities, Sonia Weiser’s Opportunities of the Week, Talia Augustidis’s All Hear, On the Move, Sean Meades-Williams’s Freelance Writing Jobs, Commonwealth Foundation’s Creative Opportunities List, Aurore Iradukunda’s monthly roundup for (African scholars), Creative Lives in Progress, Run the Check(UK), Grants for Creators (US), Sisterly HQ (NG), and our Instagram page, where we share opportunities more frequently on our stories.