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AFRICAN LIBERTY WRITING FELLOWSHIP

Application Deadline: April 30, 2025.

LOCATION: Africa

African Liberty is thrilled to announce the application call for its 2025/2026 African Liberty Writing Fellowship. The fellowship program is open to any African student currently enrolled in or must have graduated from an African institution of higher learning or pursuing higher education outside the continent.

ELIGIBILITY:

An applicant has to be enrolled in, or must have graduated from, an African institution of higher learning. Or, be an African pursuing higher education outside the continent.

Application and admission fees are free

 5-week training runs from 26 May 2025 to 23 June 2025. The writing fellowship starts on 15 July 2025, and ends on 15 July 2026.

This is a paid fellowship. Compensation is contingent upon a monthly assessment. Please beware that they do not consider financial compensation until a fellow is inducted.

BENEFIT:

Expert instructors.
12-month writing fellowship.
Get published in Africa’s top newspapers.
Monthly stipend for top contributors.
Opportunity for TV and radio features.

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THE EMERALD PUBLISHING AFRICA AND MIDDLE EAST EMERALD CASE WRITING COMPETITION

Application Deadline: September 30, 2024

LOCATION: Multiple Regions

Emerald Publishing invites authors based at African or Middle Eastern higher education institutions, including Türkiye and Pakistan, to submit business teaching cases focused on emerging markets in their region

The aim of the competition is to encourage and promote the development of high-quality teaching case material relevant to the realities of dynamic and emerging economies in Africa, the Middle East, Türkiye, and Pakistan. At the same time, they also seek to promote the development of case-writing capabilities with those same regions.

ELIGIBILITY:

Have a developing and emerging markets focus from Africa, the Middle East, Türkiye, or Pakistan.

Be written by authors based at higher education institutions in these same countries.

Be based on a real situation in a real company.

Be a teaching case, we cannot accept academic (research) cases.

Not have been published before in its current or substantially similar form or be under consideration for publication in any ISSN/ ISBN-registered publication or with any other case centre.

Meet the standard EMCS author guidelines (more below).

Include a completed and signed consent to publish release form.

Your case will be automatically entered into the peer-review process. Selected cases will be published in the Scopus-ranked EMCS collection (ISSN 2045 0621). By participating in the competition, you are agreeing to publish your case study in EMCS, subject to acceptance for publication after peer review and revisions (if required).

BENEFIT:

The total prize pool is worth $2,000, including $1,000 for the winner and $500 each for the two runners up and and have their case study published globally!

Please note that the prize will only be payable to the winning submissions if those submissions are successfully published. 

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