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In his work titled Nationalism and African Intellectuals, 1 Toyin Falola postulates a number of axioms (i.e., statements or propositions that are considered to be established, accepted, or self-evidently true) for migrations and movements of African intellectuals which suggest the ancient Egyptian behsâupehsa, or predator—prey, phenomenon: that is, the supposition that there are two species that interact as predator and prey. In its simplified version, the predator population only preys on this prey species, the prey is only preyed upon by this predator species, and the prey population’s needs and desires are not taken into account.2
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Bangura, A.K. (2015). Postulates on the African State. In: Toyin Falola and African Epistemologies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137492708_5
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