Challenges of Statelessness on Refugee Youths in Africa: The Call for Ubuntu Ethos in Policy Practices

Abstract

This paper seeks to discuss the challenges faced by refugee youths in Africa as result of being stateless and suggest measures to address the problem of statelessness within those youths. Living without nationality forces those youths to live frustrating life stylecoupled with uncertain future. This paper calls for the host countries to change their policy practices for the sake of humanity, with the concept of Ubuntu and Human security driving the policy interventions to resolve the problem of statelessness within the refugee youths across Africa. In this paper, documentary search and in-depth interviews were used.