Africa-first · Globally connected
From your first scholarship to Africa's next generation of researchers.
Buntu Foundation is a long-term ecosystem: scholarship coaching, an AI4 Youth Summer School, mentorship, and a fully-funded research hub being built on the continent.
Our mission
Unlock African talent. Keep it on the continent. Connect it to the world.
We believe Africa already has the brilliance. What is missing is the pathway — from a first-year high schooler discovering they can win full funding, all the way to a senior researcher publishing from a hub built on home soil. Buntu builds that pathway end to end.
- 10,000
- African youth into dignified careers by 2035
- 3
- Branches: Summer School · Scholarship · Hub
- 1
- Continent-wide community, free at the point of use
Impact stories
The first cohort is publishing soon.
Real people, real countries, real outcomes — coming as scholars cross their milestones. In the meantime, read where Buntu came from and where we are going.
Tracking towards our commitment
Live numbers, not promises.
Scholars in the cohort
Active mentors
Countries reached
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Find your entry point.
Empowering young voices
Programs you can join this year.
110+ young Africans, one room, one mission.
Trustworthy AI, leadership, and the long road ahead — an annual gathering that becomes a year-round community.
Inside the programRun Buntu in your own school.
Student-led chapters carrying scholarship workshops, study circles, and mentor matchmaking into their own campuses.
Become an AmbassadorFrom the newsroom
The newsroom opens with our first cohort.
News, long-form articles, and event recaps will land here as the programs roll out. Join the list to be first in.
Support the pathway
A donation today funds an application, a workshop, a research week.
Buntu is donation-funded and free at the point of use for every scholar. Recurring or one-time — every contribution is visible on our donor wall.