Check out the following fellowship/career opportunities, news blogs, and other regional Pan-African Professional organizations! Click on the icons to access the sites.

Fellowship/Career Opportunities 

 

 

African Development Bank Group: Young Professionals Program

The Young Professionals Program (YPP) at the African Development Bank Group aims at attracting highly qualified and motivated professionals from its member countries, who are committed to African development, have demonstrated outstanding academic and professional achievement, as well as effective team work and leadership potential.

 

 

Mandela Washington Fellowship 

The Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, begun in 2014, is the flagship program of President Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) that empowers young people through academic coursework, leadership training, and networking. The Fellowship provides 500 outstanding young leaders from Sub-Saharan Africa with the opportunity to hone their skills at a U.S. higher education institution with support for professional development after they return home.

 

 

United Nations Economic Commission for Africa 

The programme aims to provide practical, on-the-job experience to the young professionals as they prepare either for a career in research and international development and the public sector. It will also familiarize them with the Commission’s broad programmes and services to member States and sub-regional bodies in addressing the social dimensions of Africa’s development.

African Leadership Network

ALN Ventures is a platform designed to identify the most promising entrepreneurs in Africa, and to connect them to the power of ALN: Africa’s most dynamic group of young influencers. Mentorship, investment, exclusive access to partner services—we’re looking to provide founders with everything they need to accelerate their growth. We also host half-day events and workshops in various cities around Africa, including our intensive, entertaining “Build-a-thon” sessions.

African Business Fellowship

The Africa Business Fellowship is a partnership between Econet, African Leadership Network (ALN), and Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT). The program will match young American business professionals with paid 6-month placements in African companies. Its purpose is to strengthen relationships between the African and American business communities and provide future American business leaders with the hands-on experience they need to truly understand business in Africa. We believe that by exposing high-achieving American professionals to African business at this stage in their careers, we are setting the stage for increased American-African investment and more meaningful collaboration.

Blogs Showcasing Contemporary Images of Africa and Things to Do for Young Black Professionals 

Taste Makers Africa

TastemakersAfrica is a mobile and web-based travel platform that connects millennials with hip, insider leisure experiences in Africa.

 

 

This is Africa 

This is Africa, a publication from the Financial Times Ltd, seeks to examine African business and politics in a global context and to make sense of the relationships that Africa is building with the rest of the world. It aims to challenge international preconceptions about the continent and to identify the opportunities and the risks in this dynamic business environment. This is Africa equips senior decision makers with the knowledge to understand the evolution of African economies; to find partners and investments that match their criteria for return or for development and to position their brands to take advantage of the rise of the African consumer.

Regular features include:

• Updates on foreign policy
• Perspectives from leading thinkers on Africa
• Interviews with global leaders
• Analysis of major events and transitions
• Features covering the major industry segments Roundtable discussion & debate

 

 

This is Africa, Our Africa 

This is Africa, from the grasslands to the bubbling cities, our aim is to educate and showcase the Africa many of us know, that others never get to see. The Africa we know & love, our Africa.

 

 

I don’t do clubs

A solution for young Black professionals who are looking for social events beyond the typical nightclub scene.

Regional Pan-African Associations 

 

 

Young Professionals (YAP) DC Network

The mission of YAP is to connecting young African professionals and harnessing the intellectual wealth of the African Diaspora for career development and opportunity creation.

 

 

Pan Africa Network NY

PAN, based in New York City, as a non profit organization provides expert networking options to individuals of varying sectors and skill sets to collaborate so that creative ideas and alternative paths for progress in the African market can be embraced. The PAN African Network is committed to creating tangible opportunities in the African markets; and seeks to serve as an incubator and accelerator to connect project developers, entrepreneurs, investors and experts via a mentorship matchmaking program; with the goal of collective work towards greater development of the African continent.