The MyAfroScholars Blog

Practical writing for African students chasing funding, and for the sponsors who make that funding possible.

We publish scholarship guides, application walkthroughs, deadline round-ups, essay and interview advice, and explainers on how funding decisions actually get made. Posts are grouped by category, tag and author so you can follow the threads that matter to you.

If you are early in the process, start with our eligibility and document guides — what a transcript needs to show, which recommendation letters carry weight, how to prove financial need without oversharing — then work through the application tips before a deadline forces your hand.

For sponsors and partners, we cover how scholarship funds are structured and disbursed, what meaningful reporting from a funded scholar looks like, and what the evidence says about which interventions actually keep students enrolled through graduation.

New posts go up regularly. Every article is written or reviewed by the MyAfroScholars team, and we correct anything that turns out to be wrong rather than quietly deleting it.