The Nature of African Customary Law
- ISBN-10
- 0719002214
- ISBN-13
- 9780719002212
- Category
- Customary law
- Pages
- 318
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1956
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Author
- Taslim Olawale Elias
Description
Johnson has this to say of the Ogboni Secret Societies among the Yorubas : ' Amongst the Egbas and Ijebus , the Ogbonis are the chief executive , they have the power of life and death , and power to enact and to repeal laws : but in the ...
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