$100,000 Mandela Rhodes Ääänit Prize
- Organization: Mandela Rhodes Foundation
- Type: Scholarship
- Location: Global
- Deadline: July 21, 2026
- Funding: Fully Funded
The Mandela Rhodes Scholarship is a prestigious postgraduate scholarship for young Africans who want to grow as leaders and give back to the continent. It's offered by the Mandela Rhodes Foundation and is open to students from across Africa's 54 countries and a wide range of academic disciplines. Beyond funding postgraduate study, the scholarship includes a Leadership Development Programme designed to push you to understand yourself better, work across difference, and build real skills for tackling Africa's challenges. Scholars come from 38 countries and 36 disciplines, so you end up in a cohort of genuinely diverse, driven people. Past scholars describe it as joining a lifelong community, one where you're challenged, supported, and connected to a network that sticks around long after the programme ends. If you're a young African with strong academic credentials and a clear sense of how you want to serve your community or country, this scholarship is worth seriously considering.
