Abstract:
For a very long-time historiography has been to a larger extent considered to be the collection and preservation of historical information in writing or in books. This has seriously rendered the history of some societies crippled and unrecognized. It is quite often than not that writers of African history particularly consider it from the perspective of when Africa's interaction with other parts of the world opened up. Being that most of Africa's history was not written down in books, some historians deliberately or unknowingly describe Africa as a land without history before the interaction with other societies. Anyway, I doubt how a society that has been in existence for so many years with a series of rich sociocultural, political, religious, and economic practices be considered without history. That is one of the most utter misrepresentations, misleading, and malicious arguments a historian would ever make in the ethics and principles of historiography.
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