LSE offers a number of fully-funded visiting fellowships for early career and more senior African academics to spend up to six months at LSE.

Ama de-Graft Aikins (LSE Health) and Sergio Chichava (LSE Ideas) were the first LSE African Research Fellows in 2013.

The African Research Fellowship Programme has been generously supported by an Anonymous Donor, Atlantic Philanthropies, Richard Delbridge, and the LSE Centennial Fund. The Programme is a key component of the LSE African Initiative which seeks to engage with African institutions and promote knowledge exchange. It specifically supports the goal of connecting African faculty with their global peers to establish the foundation for research collaboration.