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Igbo Village Affairs: Chiefly with Reference to the Village of Umueke Agbaja

M. M. Green · Sidgwick and Jackson · 1947

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M. M. Green
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2026-09-01
Reliability notes
Ethnography based on fieldwork in the 1930s; second edition Frank Cass, 1964 (record linked).

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EstablishedMost pre-colonial Igbo communities had no kings; political authority was diffuse, shared among open village assemblies, lineage elders, title-holders and age grades, and decisions rested on consensus rather than force of law.