ABSTRACT
International law and, by extension, the wealth of principles and jurisprudence relating to international boundaries' law, was born in Africa. International law has at least since antiquity and perhaps before, been continuously practiced in Africa and has involved its peoples, territories and political states in a number of fundamentally important ways. Colonialism and the creation of modern African state territories was simply the result of the self-reinforcing theories of predestined pre-eminence held by competing imperial powers. Nothing defeats the idea that Europe brought civilisation to all of Africa than the account of forthright pioneer Europeans who came in contact with African peoples before the ideology of racism, deemed necessary for the subjugation of colonial peoples took root. Records of Western culture in Europe began with Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Christianisation furthered the development of Western culture during the Middle Ages and the reform and modernisation triggered by the Renaissance led to the onset of globalisation by successive European empires.
