Bridging the Scholarship Gap on Statelessness in Africa identity (including on birth registration, national identity cards, and digitisation) on the African continent are supported by bilateral and multilateral organisations as well as other non-state actors. There is more room for such organisations to use their resources and leverage to support work aimed at identifying (including data collection), documenting, and generally understanding and improving the lived reality of stateless persons in Africa.49 VI. CLOSING REMARKS There is no doubt that African scholarship on the topic at hand – statelessness in the African context – is still in short supply. The discussions in this Special Issue attempt to make a modest contribution to these developing debates from the perspective of a few African scholars. We encourage all stakeholders to actively engage with the challenges, gaps, responses, and solutions proposed in the articles of this Special Issue and consider their role in responding to statelessness in Africa. After all, ‘leaving no one behind’ deserves no less. See, for example, Sneha Raghavan & Alan Gelb ‘10 million stateless and growing: How donors can help’ (17 November 2014), available at https://www.cgdev.org/blog/10-million-stateless-and-growing-how-donors-can-help 49 15