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Programs · across the group

We develop people who can build and run.

Africa has ideas and talent. What is scarce is people who can take responsibility for a business and carry it. Our programmes develop them inside real ventures — structured Afrifounders initiatives that sit across the group, not an institutional arm.

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Two programmes running · not an institutional arm

Current programmes

Applications closed

Programs · current opportunity

Afrifounders Graduate Trainee Programme 2026

From graduate to professional — in six decisive months.

For Nigerian graduates currently serving NYSC or who recently completed it. Six months, full time: five weeks of Mini MBA training, three weeks of business immersion, then a competitive four-month paid internship for the strongest participants.

  1. Weeks 1–5Mini MBA training
  2. Weeks 6–8Business immersion
  3. Months 3–6Paid internship · competitive
Explore the programme Applications are free. Initial training and business immersion are unpaid. Internship selection is competitive and not guaranteed; a full-time offer afterwards is not guaranteed either. Applications and full detail live on gtp.afrifounders.com.

Applications closed

Programs · evergreen

Afrifounders Venture Fellowship

Not a course. Not an internship. A venture leadership pipeline.

Foundation & business immersion
Apprenticeship & shadowing
Venture assignment & execution
Venture leadership & performance

Explore the Fellowship Cohort dates are announced when a cohort is approved. No application deadline is displayed while applications are closed. Outcomes vary by fellow and by venture; we do not publish placement rates we cannot evidence.

Which one?

GTP is for graduates entering professional work. The Fellowship is for people ready to take responsibility for part of a venture.

How our programs work.

  1. Principle 01

    Selective

    Few places, high expectations, recommendation and evaluation before entry.

  2. Principle 02

    Practical

    Learning happens against live venture problems, not case studies.

  3. Principle 03

    Accountable

    Everyone owns a deliverable that someone else depends on.

  4. Principle 04

    Connected

    Programs feed the ventures, and the ventures feed the programs.

From training to venture leadership.

  1. Phase 01

    Training

    Structured foundation and immersion in how businesses actually work.

  2. Phase 02

    Apprenticeship

    Working alongside operators on live problems with real consequences.

  3. Phase 03

    Venture assignment

    Responsibility for a function inside a venture, measured on outcomes.

  4. Phase 04

    Venture leadership

    For some, a long-term operating or leadership role in the ecosystem.

In development

Programs in development.

Founder and operator programmes are being designed against the same four principles. Nothing is announced until its dates, format and delivery are approved — so this page will stay at two live programmes until a third is genuinely ready.

Impact Partner

Skillup Africa

A separate nonprofit impact and programme organisation that Afrifounders works with. It is not an Afrifounders commercial venture and Afrifounders holds no ownership in it.

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Want to build and run businesses, not just study them?

The Fellowship is the route for people ready to take responsibility inside a venture. Register interest and we will tell you when the next cohort opens.

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