The view that pre-colonial Africans were not capable of engaging in any systematic and sophisticated art of diplomacy have been deconstructed by several research works centered on African history. The history of European traders, missionaries, explorers, conquerors and rulers constituted, in their own...
Such was the unwritten code of war subscribed to by all African communities. With the 19th century colonial intrusion, all these changed and not only were total wars fought for the very first time in Africa, but also protected persons were not only maltreated, but also considered as spoils ...