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Kingmakers

Kingmakers shaped succession and legitimacy through councils, elders, and ritual authority in African traditional societies and spiritual practices.

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