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There are many theoretical arguments on the legitimacy, suitability and efficacy of African Indigenous peacemaking approaches (AIPA), but they exist in conceptually separate realms. Examining them in one connected and unified intellectual sequence brings into focus the imperative to mainstream these African approaches for Africa’s sustainable security. This is in fact the current cogent recommendation from the past and present research, practice, diplomatic and policy discourse on Africa’s peace. This collation of debates has stimulated a paradigm shift, from repetitive research on the nature, legitimacy and efficacy of African Indigenous peacemaking approaches to the research that ferrets out the factors that will facilitate their genuine institutionalization.

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By adopting the purview of Peace and Conflict Studies and the expository approach of historical archaeology of colonialism, this paper succeeds in enumerating the models the British used to establish and perpetuate colonial violence on the Indigenous Australians, and the traumatizing impacts the violence is exerting on them. The sole essence of the paper is not only to re-establish that the British colonization of Australia was deliberate, just as the heinous models they used. Most essentially, the paper identifies the following institutions: Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS), the UN and challenges them to move from their current inert condemnation of colonial violence and adopt effective, concrete and practical frameworks that will “overthrow” the Australian colonial violence. Their sincere disposition and uncompromised commitment to this cause is important and imperative. In conclusion, the paper poses some pertinent questions to prove that colonialism is a dispensable evil.