Africa Department : Our Programme
The focus countries of KAAD are spread across four regions, each of which has a KAAD partner committee that represents KAAD affairs and plays an important role in the process of pre-selecting applicants. In West Africa the focus country is Ghana , in the Horn of Africa it is Ethiopia and in southern Africa the focus is on Zimbabwe . In East Africa there is a partner committee in the focus country Kenya , but the two neighbouring countries Uganda and Tanzania are also in focus. In each of the four regions in which the KAAD Africa department is active, there is the possibility of so-called ‘InCountry’ (‘Sur-Place’) scholarships. However, these are limited to scholarships for master's studies. The possible study locations are: Kumasi/Ghana, Addis Ababa/Ethiopia, Nairobi/Kenya and Harare/Zimbabwe. The scholars can complete a master's degree there and are involved in an educational program consisting of thematic meetings, social activities and an annual seminar within the framework of the existing KAAD alumni associations. In the Africa department, scholarships for Germany are almost exclusively limited to doctorates. The scholars are recruited either from dedicated young academics who are not yet known to KAAD or from the alumni of the Sur-Place/InCountry program who are already part of the KAAD network in their countries.), social sciences (politics, sociology, development studies, economics, law with a focus on human rights), agricultural and environmental sciences and engineering. KAAD also has a focus on the academic promotion of artists (several well-known and internationally renowned alumni) and on cultural studies subjects, especially linguistics of African regional languages. Another example is cooperation with research networks funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). In particular, the ecosystem of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania has been the centre of several research phases so far. the living conditions of the people on Kilimanjaro and their interaction with the ecosystems.
