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Grants, VC funds, accelerators, and competitions for African entrepreneurs.
Grants, VC funds, accelerators, and competitions for African entrepreneurs.
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African Fashion Foundation supports individuals in Africa’s fashion ecosystem through three pathways: the African Fashion Futures Incubator, the Roberta Annan Scholarship, and the Create & Cultivate Masters Award. The incubator offers business mentorship, global networks, and seed support for emerging African fashion entrepreneurs. The scholarship supports exceptional African undergraduate talent, while the masters award provides postgraduate funding for designers building fashion brands and studios from the African continent. The opportunity is aimed at African designers and creative professionals, including members of the African diaspora.
African Fashion Futures Incubator
An intensive programme developing the next generation of African fashion entrepreneurs with business mentorship, global networks, and seed support.
Roberta Annan Scholarship
Supporting exceptional African undergraduate talent.
Create & Cultivate Masters Award
Postgraduate funding for designers ready to build globally significant fashion brands and studios from the African continent.
Fashion entrepreneurship
Developing the next generation of African fashion entrepreneurs.
Undergraduate fashion education
Supporting exceptional African undergraduate talent.
Postgraduate fashion brand building
Funding designers to build globally significant fashion brands and studios from the African continent.
Sustainability
Embedding circular fashion principles across African fashion education and practice.
African fashion design and business development
Mentorship, network, sector expertise
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Applicants should align clearly with one of the foundation’s three tracks: undergraduate study, postgraduate brand building, or entrepreneurship through the incubator. Emphasize how your work connects to African fashion development and, where relevant, sustainability or circular fashion practice. If you are building a brand or studio, make that trajectory explicit in your application.
2008
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Deploying
Multiple portfolio companies