Most African economies range from moderately advanced capitalist systems with modern banks and stock markets to peasant and pastoral subsistent systems. Most Af

This book examines how modern Nigerian political institutions have grappled with the resurgence of traditional institutions of political leadership in the post-

Most African economies range from moderately advanced capitalist systems with modern banks and stock markets to peasant and pastoral subsistent systems. Most Af

This book shows that powerful hereditary chiefs do not undermine democracy in Africa but, on some level, facilitate it.

Questions surrounding democracy, governance, and development especially in the view of Africa have provoked acrimonious debates in the past few years. It remain