was a way of practicing politics, political attitudes, and political institutions that were

passed from one generation to the next generation. Chinua Achebe and D.T. Niane

authors of Things Fall Apart and Sundiata respectively, demonstrates how politics was

practiced during the pre-colonial period.

In Chinua Achebe's book, Things Fall Apart, the people of Umofia were

disturbed by their enemy which was a call for war rather; they decided to handle the

matter diplomatically by sending an embassy. This is how he narrates:

That was why Okonkwo had been chosen

by the nine villages to carry a message of

war to their enemy unless they agreed to... .

to atone for the murder of Udo's wife. And

such was the fear that their enemies had for

Umofia that they treated Okonkwo like a king

And brought...