The author sustains that colonization has been a principal factor for the creation of ethnic identity as a weapon of segregation or disintegration within a system in which the cultural fissures or fusions were, according to the principles of coexistence within the African pre-colonial political systems,the healthiest form for ethnic living. Ethnicity was used as a mechanism of colonial domination. In no part of Africa, states the author, have the colonial or post-colonial methods, or "tribalism", "ethnicity" and "political interration" proven effective to create unity around the imported concept of nation.