I would like to thank the three anonymous IJURR reviewers and the journal editors for their insightful comments on the manuscript. Earlier versions of the text benefited from the insightful comments of Sylvia Croese, Chloé Buire, and the attendees of the 2025 European Conference on African Studies in Prague. The research for this article was made possible by a PhD scholarship from the Portuguese Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) under scholarship [2022.12544.BD]. The author reports there are no competing interests to declare. Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.