Topic

Governance

Governance in African traditions: how chiefdoms, councils, and elder systems organize authority, make decisions, and ground power in spiritual law.

Yoruba 10 min

Kingmakers: From the Ọ̀yọ́ Mèsì to Contemporary Nigerian Politics

I put two things on the same table one morning: a week of printed Nigerian political coverage, and Samuel Johnson's The History of the Yorubas, open at the chapter on Bashọ̀run Gáà.

By Adaeze