the central role of propaganda in the adoption of the policy of Indirect Rule at the inception of British colonial rule (Nwabughuogu, 1981), and in enlisting African support for Britain during the Second World War (Gadsden, 1986; Holbrook, 1985; Ibhawoh, 2007; Smyth, 1984, 1985). The erroneous impression is thereby conveyed that propaganda ceased to be relevant, and came to be abandoned as soon as the particular exigency which necessitated it was overcome.