Unlike the centralised monarchies of the Yoruba or Hausa, the Igbo traditional political system was decentralised and "acephalous" (lacking a single central head). Power was exercised through a council of elders, age grades, and general assemblies by consensus, emphasising an egalitarian and "ultra-democratic" social structure.
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