Modern economic theories on African developments have often underscored the significant impacts of colonial institutions in the general underdevelopment of Africa. Unfortunately, these studies rarely emphasize the significant contributions of the resilient “structures of violence” which in mimicry of colonial violence has continually sabotaged African developments. Working with the social/literary theories of mimicry, the chapter interrogates the sonic contours of colonial mercantile institutions of slavery, the importations and exploitations of firearms, and the continual mimicry of these “colonial archetypes” of violence by contemporary state and non-state actors on the African continent.