AHMR African Human Mobilty Review - Volume 8 No 3, SEP-DEC 2022 reluctant even so to call it ‘their fair share’. However, the scholarship on statelessness still needs to make meaningful headway in fields such as economics, philosophy, and anthropology. Moreover, the role that psychology could play in helping us to understand the implications of statelessness both at the individual and communal levels is yet to be taken up in earnest. It is also not off the mark to inquire if there are elements of traditional, customary, or religious law and practice that could help inform the scholarship on statelessness in Africa. Almost a decade ago, Mark Manly (the former head of the Statelessness Unit at the UNHCR) and Laura van Waas noted the existence of an adequate amount of academic activity on statelessness and concluded that ‘statelessness has “arrived” as a recognised focus of both academic and policy-oriented study’.45 Five years down the line, in 2019, in an article entitled ‘The arrival of “Statelessness Studies”?’, David C. Baluarte further consolidated these arguments. Although he acknowledging that this area of study is neither fully defined nor has one specific field to claim it, Baluarte asserted ‘that the study of statelessness has emerged as a multi-disciplinary field’46 and went on to ‘urge that we institutionalise it as such’.47 It is worth exploring if researchers and academic institutions are paying adequate attention to these developments. For example, it is not clear whether any universities in Africa have engaged in activities such as curriculum development with a focus on statelessness, and if they have, what the depth and breadth of their courses are. In moving forward, we should also ask critical questions such as the following: How do we increase academic engagement around the issue of statelessness on the African continent? What are some of the ‘dos and don’ts’ that we can learn from other regions of the world? For example, is there room for African organisations to organise themselves along the lines of the European Network on Statelessness (a ‘coordinating body and expert resource for organisations and individuals working to promote the right to a nationality in Europe’),48 with membership spanning 41 European countries, for the purpose of expanding scholarship on statelessness in Africa? How do we bring the next generation of African researchers into the fold to contribute to the debate? Part of expanding and deepening statelessness scholarship in Africa should also involve paying close attention to the role of language. For example, how do we capture the research being undertaken on the topic in languages other than English? How should research findings on statelessness be communicated using local languages? It would also be remiss to overlook the role of donors in influencing the scholarship around statelessness in Africa. A large number of projects around legal Mark Manly & Laura van Waas ‘The state of statelessness research: A human rights imperative’ (2014) 19(1–2) Tilburg Law Review at 3, 4. 46 David C Baluarte ‘The arrival of “statelessness studies”?’ (2019) Statelessness & Citizenship Review at 156. 47 Ibid. 48 European Network on Statelessness (ENS), available at https://www.statelessness.eu/about 45 14