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Local Government in West Africa / L. Gray Cowan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cowan, L. Gray, author.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1958]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Studies some of the units of local representative government in Southern Nigeria and the problems encountered in the integration of popularly elected bodies into communities where the residents were not prepared to accept their authority.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- Introduction: The Indigenous Political Systems in West Africa
- I. The Native Authority System in Nigeria
- II. Local Administration in French Africa before 1939
- III. Local Representation in Nigeria since 1945
- IV. Postwar Representative Institutions in French Africa
- V. The Nigerian Local Council System in Operation
- VI. The Representative Bodies of French Africa in Operation
- VII. The Traditional Authority and the Nigerian Local Council System
- VIII. The Indigenous Authority and Local Administration in French Territory
- IX. The Regional Government and Nigerian Local Administration
- X. The French Administration and Local Government
- XI. Local Government and the Nigerian Political Parties
- XII. Local Government and the Political Parties in French Africa
- XIII. Outline of the Future in French Africa
- XIV. Retrospect and Prospect
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-231-88578-4
- OCLC:
- 1100452275
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