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(Herbst, 1990),” where very few developing countries have fought interstate wars and did not include the conquest of another country. Herbst also observed that there have been no post-colonial boundary changes due to the system of boundary maintenance called the OAU (Organization of African Unity) as the leaders refused to recognize boundary changes which has also led to African State stability given the facts of “State weakness, poverty and ethnic diversity, where in contrast, European States would have failed (Herbst, 1990).” Herbst sees the problem of State consolidation in Africa due to State weakness which is faceted due to lack of war; African States lack government revenue and are unable to tax without the presence of a symbiotic relationship between tax collection and nationalism. Herbst sees these existing weak States as permanently weak States with the absence of a competitive State system, and States that even States that fully depend on international aid still survive. He sees the presence of the permanently weak State that will not be eliminated as “the new development...