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