Africademics, founded in 2019, is a scholarship platform and community for students, graduates, early career researchers and youth in and from Africa. We strive to make scholarships and funding opportunities more accessible and to enable more young Africans to pursue higher education. We publish daily updates about scholarships, fellowships, training courses, leadership academies and other opportunities on our Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn pages, as well as on our WhatsApp and Telegram channels. Over 30,000 followers and subscribers in Africa and beyond have joined the Africademics community since its foundation. Africademics was founded by Lena Gronbach, a social entrepreneur and PhD student at the University of Cape Town. Having been supported by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation throughout her studies, Africademics is her way of giving back. In 2021 the organization was awarded the ‘weitergeben – Social Engagement’ prize by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation and was selected as a finalist in the 2020/21 ‘startsocial’ programme.