our article does not privilege one perspective over another, nor do we
seek to accord prominence to the literature emanating from a particular continent: alas,
this often underpins and sometimes undermines academic discourse on these and
analogous territories, which sometimes denigrates – and, more often, studiously
ignores – valuable, seminal perspectives from other disciplines and nations. Ignoring
these perspectives may unwittingly – or wittingly – create historiographies and
narratives about a particular domain