THE PREMISE OF MIXED GOVERNMENT IN AFRICAN POLITICAL STUDIES By
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IN AFRICAN POLITICAL STUDIES By Richard L. Sklar University of California, Los Angeles This keynote address was presented at an international conference on “Indigenous Political Structures and Governance in Africa,” at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, July 19-21, 2001, and published in Olufemi Vaughan, ed., Indigenous Political Structures and Governance in Africa (Ibadan, Nigeria: Sefer Books Ltd., 2003), pp. 3-25; reprinted in Olufemi Vaughan, ed., Tradition and Politics: Indigenous Political Structures in Africa (Trenton, NJ and Asmara, Eritrea: Africa World Press, 2005), pp. 13-32.
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