The African people have been in contact with the West from as early as the 15th century for trade, war, and various purposes. However, there is rarely an African-human contact that could be as momentous as the 19th century European colonization of the continent. This is because of its combined economic, political, and social interest that would change, for a long time, the African peoples’ quest for recognition. Suffice it to say that our use of ‘‘Africa’’ here refers to Sub-Saharan Africa, (in other terms, ‘‘black Africa’’ as adopted by Wole Soyinka in his Poems of Black Africa) whose social and political history remarkably differs from the kingdoms of North Africa. In The West and the Rest of us, Chinweizu provides a good trajectory to begin this investigation. He divides the aggression of Western Europe on the rest of the world into two waves. The first wave which began from the Renaissance and Europe’s ‘‘learning of the ancient Mediterranean,’’ was dominated by the Portuguese who occupied the trans-Sahara trade route for West African gold, guided by their military might and the Pope’s authority (Chinweizu 3). Having lost all effort to break the Portuguese monopoly of this trade route in West Africa, their Spanish rival went West sailing around the world in search of the spice island of the East (India) to circumvent the area of the Pope’s jurisdiction (Chinweizu 4). This misadventure led to the Spanish exploration of the Americas and the subsequent Columbian exchange that Africa would not be in a hurry to forget. This is not just because it initiated the infamous trans-Atlantic trade of Africans as slaves to farm the vast impounded lands from the Americas but because it also instituted racism as a systematic justification of this slavery- a scourge that the descendants of the slaves and indeed the entire world are suffering till date....