1,000 Abibisika (Black Gold) Points

Rank: Unranked Obibini

Any resources y’all know of that address the Afrikan concept of war? Essentially I’m interested in knowing how our ancestors unified a divided people through civil war or other means.
Based off of Chancellor Williams work, empires fragmented then reorganized into new empires through many millennia.

For example how was Amina of Zazzau able to unify such a broad area of people n’ land that lasted for several hundred years? How did nyst Namer unify upper and lower kmt?…the list goes on