ABSTRACT
Genocide in Africa has been inflicted by both European and African perpetrators. The German colonialists had pushed the Herero people off their land to make way for German settlers; but the Herero fought back, and in retaliation, the German colonialists massacred thousands, driving the rest into the desert. A pogrom is an equivalent of genocide, the organized extermination of a group as a result of political, cultural, racial, or even religious aversion. If one would strain to decipher the presence of corporate intent in the Rwandan genocide, this vital component of every mass killing of a genocidal scale was self-evident in the pogrom inflicted on the Igbos at the build-up to the Nigerian Civil War. The Nigerian judicial processes had been interfered with and rendered an accomplice “by default in the doctrine of justifiable genocide”.
