Introduction
History is crucial in the life of everything that exists in geospatial realm, both physical and social. Man’s quest to understand the past for itself and as a way to understand the present for a guide to the future has always been at the centre of historical studies. And historians have never been modest about the scope of their work when it comes to placing ‘value’ ― value in the sense of the truthfulness of their conclusions in whatever is their engagement. No historian is ever shy to inform those for whom his work is meant that he has revealed the ‘truth’ about the investigated past and that his explanation or illumination about the present has been ‘objectively’ revealed to the extent that no ‘extraneous matter’ has impinged on the truth unearthed about the past and his own (historian) feeling, emotions and other sub-conscious prejudices have not been let into the evaluation of the revealed ‘truth’ about the past as a means of explaining the present, an illumination needed to guide us as we proceed to the uncharted and unknown future that we must approach and arrive at.
