Pre-colonial Africa had a wide diversity of politics and government, all related to the type of economic systems practised.

Their main point is that it is not simply that there is less political centralization in Africa, but that the development of political institutions took a ...

In southern Africa Hjort (2010) argues that Botswana's post-colonial success derives from pre-colonial cultural characteristics that favored good inter-ethnic ...

6 окт. 2023 г. · POLITICAL SYSTEMS IN THE PRE-COLONIAL ERA AND THE RISE OF CONSTITUTIONALISM IN NIGERIA ; The pattern of legislative and executive powers of most ...

Two types of systems, hierarchical political systems and horizontal or acephalous societies, developed to help generate stable communities and foster prosperity ...

13 мар. 2023 г. · With the ongoing importance on the role of traditional chiefs, the paper investigates the impact of precolonial centralization of ethnic ...

We find that the centralized precolonial political institutions of African ethnic groups reduced corruption and fostered the rule of law in colonial and ...

Upon the arrival of the metropole, chiefdoms with primary institutions of governance were already prevalent throughout pre-colonial Africa (Eldredge, 2018).

This paper analyses the role of traditional and modern institutions of governance in contemporary Africa. It examines the traditional institutions in their ...

It argues that before the advent of colonialism in the African soil, most city states and empires were operating a highly developed democratic government in ...