Scholars Bible

Why Scholars Bible?

"Scholars Bible" is a compendium of the author's 20-year experience of navigating the global scholarship space. The book will reveal novel insights and winning strategies which got him 14 scholarships/fellowships worth over 250,000 USD. Peculiar stories of African scholarship winners (who were his mentees or clients) were shared with permission, to shed more light on the right approach to be employed in tackling some common concerns. The book has 10 chapters namely:

1. The trigger: A mindset shift
2. Am I good enough?
3. Understanding the basics
4. Scholarships are candidate-specific
5. The winning formula
6. A good academic CV
7. Winners can be rejected
8. The first win and every other thing will fall in place
9. Soar!
10. Replicate yourself

Who should purchase the book?

1. Beginners who wish to understand the basics and complexities of securing a scholarship /fellowship for career advancement.
2. Scholarship applicants who have been rejected by several scholarship selection committees, to learn how to revamp their approach for better outcomes.
3. Parents who want their wards to win a scholarship to further their education abroad at no cost.
4. Professionals who are considering a postgraduate degree to upskill or reskill at little or no cost.
5. Scholarship Mentors who wish to purchase some copies for their mentees, to save them the tortuous process of explaining basic concepts.
6. Scholarship Winners who, after completing their academic programmes, are contemplating returning to their home countries to contribute to national development.

Scholars Bible is expected to be the holy grail of global scholarship or fellowship opportunities, facilitating career development at the best universities in the world at no cost.

About the author

Babajide Milton Macaulay, Ph.D., EMBA, is a serial winner of national and global scholarships/fellowships. Of the 14 he has won in 20+ years, some of them include Total/EPNL Undergraduate Scholarship, Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) Undergraduate Scholarship, Commonwealth Shared Scholarship, Commonwealth PhD Scholarship, Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholarship, NUTM Scholars Program (NSP), Open Africa Power (OAP) Fellowship, Carrington Youth Fellowship, Orange Knowledge Program (OKP), and Hyperion Executive MBA Scholarship. To give back to society, in 2018, he created iLLUMANIA (www.illumania.org), a digital platform that provides scholarship application guidance to African youths. To date, iLLUMANIA has produced 400+ scholarship winners from Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Liberia, Botswana, Somalia, Kenya, and South Africa, claiming up to 13+ million USD in scholarship benefits. This feat earned him local/international social impact awards for contributing to human capacity development across Africa.