Local and District Councils – Should They Be Forgotten?
- 1 June 1975
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Modern African Studies
- Vol. 13 (2), 309-332
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x0005309x
Abstract
Local and district councils as institutions of democratic representative government have enjoyed a brief and fragile life in Commonwealth Africa. Furthermore, throughout the period of their existence they have never been a priority concern for either colonial rulers, African leaders, or social scientists, and their very existence has been recently challenged. In a number of countries, particularly those which have experienced military take-overs, the councils have been abolished; where they remain in existence they have been transformed with few exceptions into bodies with even more limited powers and autonomy. Nevertheless, their activities, even if greatly curtailed, still offer a focal point for the study of certain questions of representation and administration in the context of political change in independent black Africa.Keywords
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