Value: Up to $7,000
Application Deadline: July 25, 2025

Requirements (review the application form for full details):

• priority will be given to the following programs: Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, and Engineering
• applicant must be a Black African Nova Scotian student
• applicant must have attended a Nova Scotia P-12 Public/Private school in Nova Scotia
• be accepted or registered as a full-time student in one of the prescribed university programs
• demonstrate continued scholastic achievement (attach an official academic transcript - internet copies are not acceptable)
• submit a typed essay (300 words - first time applicants) describing past involvement with, and vision for future development of the African Nova Scotian community (award is only available for a maximum of three consecutive years)
• Students must submit an application each year to be considered for this scholarship
• must not possess a professional degree
• be willing to participate in school to work transition follow-up surveys
• attach two letters of reference (see application form), one reference from a university professor and one character reference (non-relative)