International Relations and African Studies in Japan:
Focus on Historical and Institutional Factors
Shinichi TAKEUCHI
African Studies Center - Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Introduction
As with the discourses regarding Japan’s international relations, history and area studies play
an important role in the study of Africa 1 . An overwhelming number of articles on Africa

published in Kokusai Seiji (‘International Relations’, the flagship quarterly journal in Japanese,

issued by the Japan Association of International Relations, JAIR) were written by Africanists.
Leading scholars of African affairs in the JAIR have been area specialists and also members of
the Japan Association for African Studies (JAAS), the main academic association of African
studies in the country. For many researchers in the field of African politics, the two
associations are seen as equally important, and the researchers tend to be active members ofboth. As a result, a number of joint projects on African politics have recently been conducted
through the collaboration between political scientists and anthropologists.
While the importance of area specialists and their collaboration with anthropologists
is generally observable in the field of African politics, in Japan the practice is quite common.
It is evident from an analysis of the Kokusai Seiji that Japanese scholars have consistently been

more interested in and focused on the internal and inherent logics of African politics rather
than Africa in the global politics. Although there are many reasons for this preference, thispaper explores the Japanese approach mainly from historical and institutional aspects. In
particular, three factors—the JAIR’s institutions, origins of researchers in African politics, andtheir relationship with JAAS—will be examined in detail.
The state of African studies in Japan has been already introduced for English readers(Peek 1990, Philips 1997), yet the focus of the publications has primarily been on
anthropology and not political science or international relations. Yoshida (2007) was a rare
exception for his introductory work on the political economy in African studies in Japan;
however, his work lacked an in-depth discussion of the historical and institutional aspects.
Who were the main contributors to studies of African politics in Japan? What were theirbackgrounds and how have they evolved over time? This paper particularly sheds light onthese aspects.

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In this paper, Africa refers to the area including Sub-Saharan Africa and Maghrebcountries. Egypt is not included.
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The paper is structured as follows. The introduction is followed by the state ofresearch on Africa in JAIR, explored through the analysis of Africa-related articles publishedin Kokusai Seiji to confirm that the overwhelming part of the articles concern the dynamics
of politics of particular countries or comparative studies within the region, rather than the
traditional international relations (IR) topics such as the state’s relationship with external
powers. Sections 2, 3, and 4 investigate the institutional settings within JAIR, the backgroundof the main contributors to Kokusai Seiji, and the outline of JAAS as well as its relationshipwith JAIR, respectively. Finally, the author’s reflections will be indicated in the concluding
remarks.
1. Researches on Africa in JAIR
Established in 1956, JAIR is the oldest and largest Japanese academic association oninternational relations. With approximately 2000 members, it is one of the largest academic
associations in Japan in social sciences and humanities. Not many JAIR members areinterested in Africa. According to its online information system, 58 members have chosen
African studies as one of their three specialties 2. The number is only less than three percentof the total registered members in 1957. Yet, compared with the number of members
specialising in other major fields such as East Asian studies (240 members) and European
diplomatic history (163 members), the number of Africanists in JAIR might be consideredmore significant than expected.
Indeed, JAIR has had continuous interest in Africa since its early stage. The first

special issue on Africa in its Japanese journal, (Kokusai Seiji), was published in 1962 (no.18).
Subsequently, three other special issues on Africa were published in 1988 (no.88), 2000
(no.123), and 2010 (no.159). The general titles and the editors of the issues are indicated inTable 1. All articles included in these special issues are listed in the annexure with theirbibliographical information.
Table 1. Special issues on Africa in Kokusai Seiji
Volume (Year)

Title of the special issue

No.18 (1962)

Studies of Africa

No.88 (1988)

Politics

andEditorM. MOMO

International

Relationsin

H. ODA

Contemporary Africa

2Accessed on 6 February 2022. JAIR members are invited to register up to threemajors/specialties. The information is open for all members.
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No.123 (2000)

Africa: Towards the 21st Century

M. KAWABATA

No.159 (2010)

Africa in Globalization

M. ENDOTo understand the characteristics of African studies in JAIR, the author conducted

an overview of relevant articles that appeared in Kokusai Seiji from (no.1) 1957 to (no.200)

2020, and selected 78 articles explicitly dealing with Africa 3. From the analysis of these articles,
three characteristics can be categorically discerned. First, the number of articles on Africa has
increased over time. As shown in Figure 1, the number of Africa-related articles vary fromdecade to decade, yet, the increasing trend is evident. In addition, the number of Africarelated articles that were not included in the special issues has increased particularly since the2000. Until the 1990s, topics on Africa tended to be considered peculiar, and such articles
were rarely published except in special issues. However, recently, publication of Africa-related
articles has become nothing special in the journal, as the topic has become common in IR,
particularly since the 2010s. It is therefore safe to suggest that scholars on African politics
have been steadily increasing among JAIR members.
Figure 1. Number of articles on Africa in Kokusai Seiji
30
25
20
15
10
5
0

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

special issue on Africa

2000s

2010s

2020

other

Source: Created by the author
Second, a significant portion of the articles, 32 according to the author’s counting,focused on specific cases relating to specific African countries. The ‘single country analysis’3

The author picked articles mainly focusing Africa or those including at least one relatedcase study.
3was particularly conspicuous among researchers in the early stage of the association. As shownin the annexure, the first special issue on Africa in 1962 included the analyses of politicalissues that attracted wide attention at that time, such as the war in Algeria, the crisis in Congo(Kinshasa), and the racial problem in South Africa. In the second special issue on Africa in
1988, almost all the articles can be considered as ‘single country analysis’, and dealt withcurrent issues including the Inkatha Movement, anti-Apartheid movements, and Namibian
independence. These articles were written by researchers with a keen interest in ‘what [was]actually taking place in Africa’, and were based on the interest of the area specialists. This was

a common characteristic of the articles on Africa that appeared in the Kokusai Seiji.

While majority of the contributors to Kokusai Seiji were through area specialists until

recently, some changes have been observable in the composition of the group as the numberof the published research based on a single country study has been decreasing. This is thethird finding of the analysis. Instead of a single country study, the number of articles with
topics suitable for the traditional IR studies, such as external relations and regionalism, haveclearly increased since the 2000s. This may correspond to the general tendency in JAIR. When
JAIR was established in 1956, majority of its members were historians and specialists ofJapanese diplomatic history among others (Oyane 2020, 89). In the early stage of the study ofinternational relations in post-war Japan, history and area studies were much projected. It was
only later that theoretical analysis gained influence among the JAIR members, in general. The
evolution of the research methods applied by the Africanists also follow this trend.
2. Institutional factors in JAIR
The discussion in the previous section demonstrates that the majority of articles on Africa

published in the Kokusai Seiji were authored by area specialists who mainly focused on aparticular country or region. One important background of this is the JAIR’s institutionalarrangement, which has influence over the publication of the journal. In fact, JAIR’s academic

activities, including the annual meeting and the publication of Kokusai Seiji, are characterisedby its bottom-up organisational settings based on the Section (bunkakai), which are classified

into four Blocs, namely Bloc A (history), Bloc B (area studies), Bloc C (theory), and Bloc D(non-state actor, or new topics). The Section was created and developed as a unit ofresearchers with similar interests since the early stage of the JAIR. There were around 20
Sections in the 1990s, which were reorganised into the four Blocs in 1999 4 . The current

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According to the first JAIR newsletter, issued in April 1977, the association then had 15

Sections; three in historical studies (History in Japanese diplomacy, History of East Asian4

composition of Sections and Blocs is as shown in Table 2.
Table 2. Composition of Sections in the four Blocs as of November 2021, in JAIR
Blocs
A (History)

Sections
History in Japanese diplomacy
History in East Asian international politics
History in European international politics
History in American politics and diplomacy

B (Area Studies)

Russia and Eastern Europe
East Asia
South-eastern Asia
Middle East
Latin America
AfricaC (Theory)

Theory and methodology
International integration
Security studies
International political economy
Decision making

D (Non-state actors)

International exchange
Transnational studies
United Nations studies
Peace studies
Gender studies
Environment studies

Source: JAIR website
Intentionally or not, the balance of the four Blocs is considered when organising theannual meeting as well as in the selection of editors of the journal. The JAIR annual meetingis mainly composed of two types of conferences, the Session (bukai) and the Sectional meetinginternational politics, and History of European international politics), four in area studies(East Asia, Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Southeastern Asia, and Middle East, andAfrica), seven in theoretical studies (International integration, Transnational studies,International political economy, Decision making, System linkage, Security studies, andQuantitative politics), and one in peace studies.
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(bunkakai). Generally, the former is a bigger gathering than the latter. Recent annual
meetings included around 15 Sessions and 25-30 Sectional meetings. The Sessions areorganised by a committee whose members are designated by the Board. They are, therefore,
designed in a top-down fashion 5. Meanwhile, the Sectional meetings are organized from thebottom-up, as individual members are requested to submit proposals for a presentation or apanel to each Section. The Bloc plays an important role in terms of the planning of the Kokusai

Seiji. Three of the four yearly publications are special issues, for which each editor, who is amember of JAIR and selected by the Board in consideration of the balance between the four
Blocs, calls for papers under a specific topic. It is safe to say that the Sections and the Blocs
are the basis of JAIR’s academic activities and indispensable for the smooth management of
the annual meeting and the journal publication.
Research groups on history and area studies have taken dominant positions in the
Sections and Blocs. As shown in Table 2, they currently account for two out of four Blocs (Aand B) and ten out of twenty-one Sections 6. As a result of their dominant position, history
and area studies tend to have a greater chance to provide editors to the Japanese journal andthe Sectional meetings at the annual conference, compared to other approaches. This does
not necessarily mean that the research areas have attracted the keenest attention from themembers. It rather signifies that they had organised themselves as a Section in the earlier
stage of the JAIR’s history. Once established, a Section functions as a stable device forrepresenting a research group in the JAIR’s academic activities. Since many JAIR members
have identified history and area studies as their preferred research methods, such perception
has been supported and reinforced by the JAIR’s institutional settings.
3. Origins of Africanists in IR
Despite the fact that African studies has been a small minority in JAIR, the research in thisfield has constantly appeared since the 1960s. Who are the authors of these researches andhow have they evolved in the academic institutions in Japan?
In terms of their academic background and credentials, three types of authors are

5

In JAIR’s annual meeting, a proposal for an individual presentation is not allowed for the

Session, in principle. Although members have a right to submit a panel proposal, only a few
proposals are accepted. As for the Sectional meetings, members are able to submit
individual and panel proposals, which are collected and arranged at each Section.
6

The ten Sections are classified into Bloc A and B by geographic order rather thanmethodology.
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observable in the first special issue on Africa in 1962 (Kokusai Seiji, no.18). The first was theresearchers who had originally studied about colonial administration. The editor of the first
special issue, Minosuke Momo, was a professor at Nihon University, and had given lectureson the administration of colonies in the pre-war period. Indeed, this was a topic that was
extremely important among Japanese academia at that time. Tatsuo Urano, anothercontributor to the volume, and later the chairperson of the Middle East and Africa Section in
the JAIR, was a student of Momo at Nihon University. Another contributor to the issue, Katsu
Yanaibara, was an economist at Keio University and the son of Tadao Yanaibara, a prominent
scholar of colonial administration at the University of Tokyo. The second group was composedof researchers of West Asia and Islamic Studies, including Hajime Kobayashi, who was one ofthe pioneers of Islamic studies in Japan (Nihon Arab kankei kokusai kyodo kenkyu kokunai

iinkai jimukyoku, 1982). Kobayashi taught Islamic studies at several universities and thejunior military academy (Rikugun Yoka Shikan Gakko). In the post-war period, he played an

important role in the establishment of the Middle East Institute of Japan (MEIJ) in 1960.
Hiroshi Iwanaga, another contributor to the journal and a specialist in oriental studies,
succeeded Kobayashi as the head of research at the MEIJ. Hiroshi Kagaya, another contributor
to the journal, was a specialist in Urdu and history of West Asia. The third group consisted ofresearchers at the National Diet Library (NDL). Although there was no specialist on SubSaharan Africa in any Japanese university at that time, the research section of the National
Diet Library served as a source of information about the area. Terutaro Nishino andHiromitsu Nakamura belonged to the NDL7. At this stage in the early 1960s none of the
published articles were based on field research.
It was exactly in this period that Japan began to foster specialists in African affairs.
Two initiatives deserve mention in the field of politics in Africa. The first was at Keio
University, which established a full-time teaching post in African politics in 1965 at the
Department of Political Science in the Faculty of Law; Hideo Oda was assigned to the postand stayed there until 1997. Oda played an active role in JAIR and became a member of its
Board of Directors between 1996 and 1999. As a professor of African politics, Oda
significantly contributed to the development of Africanists. Among the authors of the second
special issue on Africa in 1988, of which Oda was the editor, three (Kazuyoshi Aoki, Kazuaki
Inoue, and Emi Kaneko) graduated from Keio University. In addition, current leading scholarsof African politics, including Takehiko Ochiai and Akiko Sugiki, were also trained under his
supervision.

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Later, Nakamura moved to the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE) and stayed in

Nigeria for fieldwork.
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The second important initiative was the founding of the Institute of Developing
Economies (IDE) in 1958 8. Being reorganised as a special corporation 9 in 1960, the IDE wasfounded as a semi-governmental research institute, specifically covering developing countries.
Young students just after obtaining BA or MA were recruited and trained to be area specialists
in the field of social sciences. In the 1960s, IDE had several specialists in Africa, and all ofthem were sent to African countries for one to three years for research. Although theirresearch focus varied, many emphasised field research. Their main academic association was
JAAS rather than JAIR, which was considered less fieldwork-oriented. The exception was Koji
Hayashi, who studied South Africa but was not permitted by the Apartheid regime to stay inthe country to conduct research. In the 1970s, he organised research projects on the liberation
movements in Southern Africa, at the IDE, with Oda, Aoki, and Inoue, all of whom
contributed articles to the second special issue on Africa in 1988.
Published twenty-six years after the first issue, the second special issue had markedly
different characteristics in terms of the focus of the articles and the background of the authors.
All the articles in this volume focused on Sub-Saharan African countries. All the authors had
started their research career in the post-war period, and four authors, including the editor,
were from Keio University, while two belonged to IDE. In short, this volume reflected agenerational change regarding those researching about Africa and the development of African
studies in Japan.
The same period also witnessed Africanists graduating from outside renowned
institutions such as Keio University and IDE. Masahisa Kawabata 10 and Mitsuo Ogura wereprominent precursors. Having graduated from Kyoto University and the University of Tokyo,
respectively, Kawabata and Ogura experienced a long fieldwork in Africa (Tanzania andZambia), and became active members of JAIR. They also made significant contributions
towards fostering next generation scholars at Ryukoku University and Tsuda College, where
Kawabata and Ogura respectively taught.

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An idea of establishing a research institute specializing in developing countries(particularly Asia) was conceived among academia, business community, and government
officials in the early stage of post-war Japan. IDE, whose Japanese name is Ajia Keizai

Kenkyujo (literally, Research Institute for Asian Economies), was created under thesupervision of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), after a fierce debate
between MITI and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) regarding which ministry
should supervise this research institute.
9

A special corporation stands for a category of public agencies.

10

President of JAAS between 2011-2013.
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Diversity in terms of the institutions producing scholars of African politics has
increased over time. This is clearly observable from the composition of contributors to thethird and fourth special issues of Kokusai Seiji. A symbolic case is that of Mitsugi Endo. Afterobtaining a BA and MA at the University of Tokyo, he obtained a Ph.D. at the University ofYork, and assumed a post in IR at his alma mater. A contributor to the third special issue on
Africa in 2000, Endo edited the fourth special issue ten years later. Continuously appointed
to the post in the Board of Directors since the mid-2000s, he has played significant roles in
the management of JAIR. As a professor at one of the most renowned IR programmes in Japan,
Endo has educated a number of young scholars.
4. Japan Association for African Studies (JAAS)JAIR has been the centre of African politics in Japan. However, it has never been the only
centre, as JAAS has also made important knowledge contributions in the field. In fact, theoverlapping of and the approach between the two academic associations has resulted inmeaningful development of the study of African politics in Japan.
Established in 1964, JAAS is the largest academic association of African studies inJapan, with currently more than 800 members. JAAS has been strongly characterised by its
interdisciplinary membership including not only the humanities and social sciences, but also
natural sciences such as zoology, primatology, botany, soil science, geology, medical science,etc (Philips 1997). The remarkable variety, as indicated in Table 3 and 4, can be traced backto the birth of the association, which was created by integrating mainly three research groups
in different regions in Japan. In the 1960s when most of the African countries attained
independence, research groups on Africa sprung up all over Japan.
There were three core groups. In Kanto (the area around Tokyo), a couple oforganisations launched African studies. In particular, the University of Tokyo had
anthropologists and geographers who had strong interest in Africa. IDE was already engaged
in research on African political economy. In the metropolitan area, the interest in African
affairs also grew outside the academic circles, as journalists and officials at the Ministry ofForeign Affairs (MOFA) were eager to seek information about the newly emerging countriesof the region, and closely collaborated with researchers to help promote research at theacademic institutions.
In Chubu, Nagoya University was eager to engage in African studies. According to
Kaneyoshi Suwa, a geologist and the JAAS president between 1993-95, the interest in Africa
started with the initiative by students for an expedition to the African continent in 1962. In
support of this, the university asked Suwa, then a young lecturer, to accompany the students9(Suwa 2015). In collaboration with Isao Matsuzawa, one of the founding JAAS Board
members, Suwa’s group made Nagoya University the Japanese centre of geological studies inAfrica.
In Kansai, Kyoto University had already launched expeditions to Africa since 1958,
under the strong initiative of Kinji Imanishi, a prominent biologist and one of the founding
JAAS Board members. Based on his passionate interest in human evolution, Imanishi led agroup to undertake large-scale and long-term research in Africa in the field of primatology
and anthropology (JAAS 2013).
Table 3. Members of the JAAS Board of Directors (1964)
Name

Affiliation

Major

Kinji IMANISHI

Kyoto U. (University)

Biology, Primatology

Masao OKA

Meiji U. (formerly, U. Tokyo)

Anthropology

Iwao KOBORI

U. Tokyo

Geography

Shozen NAKAYAMA

Tenri U.

Theology

Terutaro NISHINONational Diet LibraryContemporary history

Hideharu HASEGAWA

Gunma U. (formerly, U. Tokyo)

Medical Science

Isao MATSUZAWA

Nagoya U.

Geology

Hideo YAMADA

Hitotsubashi U.

Economic history

Source: JAAS (2013)
Despite its diversity, JAAS members collectively recognise the importance offieldwork through which they developed intimate friendships (based on their researchexperiences in Africa) irrespective of their institutional affiliation and disciplines, particularlyin the early stages of the association. In the period when few Japanese visited Africa forresearch, JAAS members shared a comradeship through their experiences in Africa. In the
beginning, scholars of African politics were a minority within JAAS, as the appearance of suchspecialists, namely scholars like Oda and Hayashi, began only in the late 1960s. Nevertheless,the few scholars in the discipline made significant contributions to the management of JAAS,
as Oda served as the president of the association between 1996-98(Table 4), and Hayashi was
the Director for General Affairs during that period.
Table 4. Presidents of JAAS (1964-2021)
Year

Name

Major

1964-73

Hideharu. HASEGAWA

Medical Science

1974-84

Isao MATSUZAWA

Geology10

1984-89

Hideo YAMADA

Economic History

1990-92

Junichiro IDANI

Primatology

1993-95

Kaneyoshi SUWA

Geology

1996-98

Hideo ODA

Political Science

1999-2001

Jiro TANAKA

Anthropology

2002-04

Masaoki MIYAMOTO

Literature

2005-07

Katsuhiko KITAGAWA

Economic History

2008-10

Mitsuo ICHIKAWA

Anthropology

2011-13Masahisa KAWABATA

Political Science

2014-16

Shuhei SHIMADA

Geography

2017-19

Itaru OHTA

Anthropology

2020-21

Eisei KURIMOTO

Anthropology

Source: Compiled by the author through investigation of JAAS’s journal, Afurika Kenkyu
From the 1990s, political issues began to attract much attention among scholars inother disciplines, particularly anthropology. Debate about orientalism as well as postcolonialism forced scholars to reassess their understanding of history and politics and theirrelevance to their own research. Consequently, issues regarding ethnicity and politics
attracted the attention of leading anthropologists in Japan (Kawada and Fukui 1988), andtheir works had strong impacts on the scholars of IR and political science (Kurimoto 1996).
In addition, the growing relations between anthropology and political science in terms of
methods, was further accelerated by their intimate working relationship within JAAS. Indeed,
the intimate exchange of ideas between different disciplines within JAAS has helped establish
a number of interdisciplinary research projects. The ‘African Potential’, a comprehensive joint
research project with two phases (2011-2016, 2016-2020), led by two scholars of Kyoto
University (Itaru Ohta and Motoji Matsuda), was a representative case. More than 100 JAAS
members were mobilised for the project, which produced numerous research publications 11.
A number of scholars in African politics were also involved in the project, leading to the
publication of two books in Japanese and in English (Endo 2016, Endo et al. 2021).
Concluding remarks

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Results of the first phase can be consulted in the following URL;

https://www.africapotential.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/outcom.html
For the results in the second phase, see the following URL;
https://www.africapotential.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/mms/research-achievement
11This paper has demonstrated the important role played by area specialists of African politics
in Japan. Both the nature of African politics and post-war (historical) circumstances of Japan’s
IR have contributed to the dominant position of area specialists in Japan. Although a detailed
discussion of how intertwined African politics is with global politics, was avoided in this paper;
it is important to note that African politics indeed has intrinsically international characters.
In any major topic regarding African politics including the state, market, and civil society(Mustapha 2006), internal and international factors are intricately connected, which demand
an in-depth knowledge of history and society to appropriately understand the trail of events.
In addition, it has been argued that actors in African politics tend to use their connections
with external forces to leverage their own interests. As Bayart (1993) has argued “extraversion”
is a phenomenon in African politics (Bayart 1993). In this context, African studies has been
in a privileged position of analysing African politics based on in-depth information andknowledge of the African societies and their history.
African studies, in fact, have made unique and important contributions to the IR in
Japan. Where IR has been under the marked influence of the way of thinking of major powers
and often takes the existent world order for granted, African studies can provide a different
world view. Focusing on African agencies and presenting a perspective from the periphery,
African studies offer alternative interpretations of the world order. Such an alternative
perspective has cardinal importance, as the international system is becoming increasingly
multi-polar.
Hence, this paper sheds light on historical and institutional reasons in Japan to
explain why area specialists have been dominant in JAIR. It highlights the diverse origins ofspecialists of African politics. Although a special issue of Kokusai Seiji on Africa was publishedas early as 1962, the majority of the contributors then were scholars of colonial administrationand West Asia. While the fostering of area specialists of Africa was late in Japan, by the 1960s
the initiative had begun at Keio University and the IDE. As the number of area specialists
increased, they became the main contributors to the JAIR’s journal in the 1980s. Thoughscholars of African politics subsequently emerged at different universities, the area studies
and history have remained dominant in their methodology until now.
In Japanese IR, researchers of area studies and history rose earlier than those intheoretical studies (Oyane 2020). In the case of African politics, the tendency has been rather
reinforced through the close relationship between the JAIR and the JAAS as well as the JAIR’s
institutional setting based on its sections and blocs. However, despite the tendency toemphasise history, diversity in methodology has been increasing in the research on African
politics in JAIR. This trend is natural and desirable, and therefore will continue. At the same12

time, researchers of area studies and history also need to be mindful of the enduring
importance of theory and methodology.

Acknowledgment
I am profoundly grateful to Kweku Ampiah (University of Leeds) for his detailed comments.

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