Sub-Saharan African societies practiced indigenous forms of democratic governance before European colonialism
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Historical sources report that various sub-Saharan African societies maintained indigenous democratic and participatory governance systems, such as historical Igbo institutions and traditional Kikuyu group democracy, prior to European colonialism.
... governance and political development in Nigeria and in Sub-Saharan Africa as a whole is the lack of enlightened ... colonialism which pose great challenges to the democratic governance and development of Nigerian society and the ...
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