This project is a partnership involving four universities: University of Ghana, American University in Cairo, Stellenbosch University and Washington University in St. Louis, with University of Ghana as the lead Institution. It is a three-year transnational programme, which seeks to enhance research capacity for early career scholars in the Humanities in Africa.

The programme will fund the travel, housing and other related costs of selected early career humanities scholars from the four institutions to spend four to six months at one of the other partner institutions. The period of stay in the collaborating institution will allow for targeted mentorship and guidance for the selected scholars by identified senior scholars who will share their research interests, while also providing an avenue for interaction and the sharing of research ideas and methodologies with peers.
The project is unique in many respects as, unlike some existing initiatives, it seeks to create avenues for early career scholars to have the opportunity of residency in a region of Africa other than their own or in a global north institution. The project has so far supported 23 fellows out of the 30 expected to have a stay out of their own universities to reflect and structure their own research agenda and write manuscripts for publication.

PIs and Project Administrators at the Inception Workshop, Accra