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RESEARCH LEADERSHIP FELLOWSHIP

The Future Africa Research Leadership Fellowship (FAR-LeaF) is an early career research fellowship program focused on developing transdisciplinary research and leadership skills.

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Food System Transformation for a Better Future

World Food Day | 16 October 2025 World Food Day 2025 calls for collective action to build peaceful, sustainable, and food-secure societies. The transformation of agrifood systems requires collaboration across disciplines and sectors — uniting science, technology, community engagement, and social innovation. The FAR-LeaF Food Security Cluster will host a virtual panel discussion to commemorate World Food Day on 16 October 2025. This panel brings together experts from agric

Future Africa hosts symposium to welcome new FAR-LeaF cohort

The Future Africa Research Leadership Fellowship (FAR-LeaF) , a flagship programme hosted by the University of Pretoria’s Future Africa pan-African platform, has entered its second phase with the induction of 22 postdoctoral fellows from 10 African countries. The new cohort, FAR-LeaF II, gathered for the first time at a week-long symposium held at the Future Africa campus from 4 to 8 August 2025. The fellows from Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Botswa

The Impact of Africa Week and the FAR-LeaF Fellowship on Dr. Ronald Tombe's Career

Insights from Dr. Ronald Tombe at Africa Week Dr. Ronald Tombe of Kenya recently participated in Africa Week at the University of...

Theatre for Development

The Theatre for Development (TFD) is a method of disseminating our communication patent tool, COMIFAVIGILANCE. This innovative approach...

Ghana | Network of Clusters Training Workshop

The Economic, Engineering, Governance and Water Clusters of the Future Africa Research Leadership Fellowship (FAR-LeaF) of the University...

Empowering Rural Women Through Financial Literacy: A Spotlight on the FAAL Project

Article by Betty Kyakuwa for Makerere University News | Business & Management , 5 August 2024 MEDIA | In the heart of Luweero...

Integrating climate change and sustainability education

The dissemination event was held on Thursday, 25th July 2024, during a research seminar organized and hosted by the UMI Institute...

The dangers of misinformation and pseudoscience acted out

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT | Theatre for Development (TFD) uses edutainment – a combination of education and entertainment – to effectively...

GHANA | Transdisciplinarity in collaboration for Early Career Researcher development in Africa

Transdisciplinarity in collaboration for Early Career Researcher development in Africa, 26-28 June 2024 in Kumasi, Ghana Call for...

Prototype | Pyrolytic conversion of plastic waste to energy

Plastic waste management has emerged as a critical global challenge due to its environmental impact and persistence. Pyrolysis offers a...

NIGERIA | Fostering Research Excellence and Leadership in Social Sciences

The workshop contributed to the academic and research community by elevating the status of Ahmadu Bello University and Future Africa in...

NIGERIA | Fostering Research Excellence and Leadership in Social Sciences and Humanities

Fostering Research Excellence and Leadership in Social Sciences and Humanities The Social Science Cluster Regional Workshop, organized...

South Africa | Fellows present at SRI Africa Sattelite, Durban 2024

The discussion advocated a coordinated, comprehensive, multi-sector, and systemic approach to climate-resilient development in Africa’s heal

TANZANIA | Stakeholder engagement at Hai District

Dr Anna Msigwa presented the soil analysis results at the stakeholder workshop at Hai District. Dr Anna Msigwa held three workshops in...

NIGERIA | International workshop on environmental conservation and sustainability

Join us for a transformative experience aimed at empowering Africa’s next generation of environmental leaders 18-20 April 2024 | Nnamdi...

GHANA | Food festivals and community events

The Responsible Artificial Intelligence Lab (RAILS) and the Distributed IoT Privacy and Edge-Intelligence Research (DIPPER) lab under the...

NIGERIA | Science communication & stakeholder engagement

Considering that our world is fast with the proliferation of smart technologies as a significant characteristic, the scale leverages from...

ZIMBABWE | Education Cluster share knowledge and experience in transdisciplinary research methods

Transdisciplinary research should reflect on dealing with the same problem but using different lenses and break disciplinary silos by...

The programme seeks to build a network of emerging African scientists with the skills needed to apply transformative research methods and approaches in addressing complex sustainability challenges in Africa, including inter- and transdisciplinarity, systems thinking, and futures literacy.