Yes — completely and permanently free for students. You can create a full profile, receive personalized scholarship matches, save scholarships, track applications, and set deadline reminders, all at zero cost. There are no premium tiers, no subscription fees, and no hidden charges for students.

Scholar Africa is funded through partnerships with scholarship providers who pay to list their programmes and reach qualified applicants. Students never pay.

When you create your profile, you provide information about your nationality, field of study, academic level, GPA, language skills, and preferred study destinations. Our matching algorithm scores each of the 400+ scholarships in our database against your profile across these dimensions.

Scholarships are then ranked by your match score, so the most relevant opportunities appear first. The matching updates automatically when we add new scholarships or when you update your profile.

Yes. Every scholarship on Scholar Africa passes a verification process before publication. We check that the scholarship is offered by a real organisation, that the application URL is live and points to the official provider, and that the eligibility details are accurate.

We also run regular re-verification checks and remove scholarships that have closed, changed significantly, or been flagged as suspicious. If you notice anything wrong with a listing, you can report it directly from the scholarship page.

No. Scholar Africa serves students from all 54 African nations equally. Whether you are from Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ethiopia, Ghana, Egypt, Tanzania, Morocco, Rwanda, Uganda, Senegal, Cameroon, Zambia, Zimbabwe, or anywhere else on the continent, you will find scholarships relevant to you.

Many scholarships are open to all African nationals. Others are country-specific (for example, a scholarship for Kenyan students only). Our matching system accounts for this automatically.

Scholar Africa is a discovery and tracking platform — the actual application is always submitted directly through the scholarship provider's official website. We provide the verified link to each official application portal.

This approach means you always deal directly with the scholarship provider, with no intermediary who could interfere, charge fees, or compromise your data. We track your application status in your dashboard, but the application itself goes straight to the source.

Scholar Africa covers secondary school, undergraduate, postgraduate Masters, postgraduate PhD, postdoctoral, and vocational scholarships. The majority of listings are for Masters and PhD students, as these levels have the most international scholarship opportunities.

Use the filters on the scholarships page — or set your academic level in your profile — to see only the scholarships relevant to your current studies.

New scholarships are added to Scholar Africa multiple times per week. Our team actively monitors scholarship providers, government announcements, university portals, and partnership networks to find new opportunities as soon as they open.

Subscribe to the weekly newsletter to receive a curated selection of newly added scholarships delivered to your inbox every Friday.

Congratulations! First, update your application status in your Scholar Africa dashboard to "Accepted." This helps us understand what is working and improves recommendations for future students.

We also invite scholarship winners to share their story so other African students can learn from your experience. You can submit your story through the Stories section. We celebrate every African scholar who succeeds.

Our matching system uses a scoring algorithm — not a large language model — to compare your profile attributes against scholarship eligibility criteria. It is rule-based and transparent: you can see why a scholarship was matched to you.

Your data is stored securely on our servers and is never sold to third parties, never shared with advertisers, and never sent to scholarship providers without your permission. Scholar Africa is fully POPIA (South African Protection of Personal Information Act) and GDPR compliant. You can request deletion of your data at any time.

If you encounter a scholarship that asks for payment, requests sensitive information upfront, or seems fraudulent, please report it immediately. There is a "Report this scholarship" button on every scholarship detail page.

Our moderation team reviews all reports within 24 hours. If the listing is confirmed to be fraudulent or misleading, it is removed immediately. You can also email us directly. Protecting African students from scholarship scams is one of our core commitments.