HUMANISM AS SELF DEFENCE: AN AFRICAN INTERPRETATION
To the game theorist, the world is a field where interests continuously play out; with the smartest or the strongest dominating. This domination can be cultural, political, economic, religious and even epistemological. This is why international relations and politics is commonly seen in terms of the Hobbesian state of nature; where the strong prey on the weak, the weak on the weaker and so on. The history of mankind is the history of domination propagated and perpetuated by interest. This is the spirit and posture that ushered in and propelled imperialism in the African colonies. It reflected basically in the denial of the humanity of the African by the Europeans, as such the blacks should serve for the benefit of the whites.
Keywords: african, defence, humanism, interpretation