African Complicity in the Slave Trades and Its Lingering Effects: By Prof Joseph C. A. Agbakoba
The responsibility to nurture the population by the State is the basis of the numerous rights that people could claim in the State and their demands on the State.
The ideology that informed the [African] State and its policies included the culti¬vation of population growth by the integration of immigrants, war captives, and so on, on the grounds that “people shield the king or the community as the case may be”. In other words, more people meant more security and prosperity in all spheres – economic, military, and so on.
