Tradition and Politics: Indigenous Political Stuctures and Governance in Africa

by Olufemi Vaughan

Based on selected papers presented at the international conference on Indigenous Political Structures and Governance in Africa, held in the University of Nigeria in 2001. Drawing from the works of leading scholars of the subject, this volume explores the interaction between indigenous socio-political structures and African state politics. Focusing on the imaginative response of indigenous structures to the expansion of political space in the 20th...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592212174
• ISBN13: 9781592212170
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
• Length: 330 Pages