Applications are open for the Minority Africa Fellowship 2022. This fellowship targets journalists and storytellers from minority groups across Africa providing them with the platform, skill, and mentorship to report stories from and about their communities.

what does the program include?

Through an intensive six-month paid program, fellows will polish their existing reporting abilities both from a skill and thematic perspective.

There will also be a training program by professionals. This training program includes:

1. 1. modules on solutions journalism
   2. data journalism
   3. interrogating the scope of inclusive futures within the metaverse
   4. geopolitics of climate change among others.

By the end of the program, each fellow would have published 12 stories on Minority Africa. These stories will be a blend of reported multimedia features as well as opinions and analysis. The program is entirely virtual and the first cohort runs from May to October 2022.

Benefits:

• Fellows will be paid a monthly allowance, receive an internet stipend, and intra-country travel related to the coverage of stories will be covered by Minority Africa.
• Training program by journalists from the Minority Africa newsroom as well as a network of journalists who work for or have worked across the continent with the Associated Press, Agence France Presse, Reuters, RFI, CNN, The Guardian, Time, and began legacy media companies tackling present media problems including one praised by former US President Barack Obama.

Eligibility:

• Fellows have to be at least 18 years of age
• they have to be from and living in an African country
• Also, they must belong to at least one of the minority groups highlighted in the focus areas above.
• They can be writers, photographers, filmmakers, journalists, or a combination of all
• Moreover, they have relevant and provable work experience in their chosen areas.

Application:

You should submit the application online.

Applications received over email are ineligible.