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In summary, by mainstreaming diaspora engagement into the policy and programmatic responses to climate and skills mobility, the variance of human and economic capital cutting across different layers of the African diaspora can be energized to support applicable recommendations in the other chapters as well as national, regional, and continental responses to the issues. [...] The country level focus is likely to limit the circulation of the totality of the African academic diaspora, including the historical diaspora, in engaging.” Formative definitional approaches adopted by the AU, IOM, and others pinpoint the importance of extending an inclusive and participatory definition to diaspora engagement to accelerate its developmental potential. [...] Financing mechanisms such as the Migration and Development Trust Fund established by the AfDB and the 8 Government of France in 2009 showcase the longevity of partnership and operational focus on diaspora engagement within the portfolio of the AfDB. [...] The centrality of diaspora human and economic capital to the Common African Position (CAP) on the GCM advanced by the AU also pinpoints the policy relevance of diaspora engagement for the development of Africa (AU, 2019a). [...] 15 Such work is critical in building the “transition from the deficit-laden and emotive-ridden discourse in the form of ‘brain drain’ that dominated the dialogue on human mobility for a long time, to a trendy, rewarding and pragmatic form in ‘brain circulation’,” which is “manifesting itself at the center of the interchange between the intellectual diaspora and higher education in developing and e.