THE ABSENCE OF CENTRALISED POLITICAL SYSTEM AS THE GREATEST SETBACK OF THE IGBOS IN THE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL GROWTH: A RECONSIDERATION OF HISTORIOGRAPHY

Abstract

This paper, based on a synthesis of available literature on these historians’ arguments, maintains that despite the absence of centralised political system, the Igbo did not lapse into anarchy. The Igbo were able to evolve a system of institutions of governance and develop a specialised and diversified economy.