Pre-Colonial Igbo Democracy in National Development
; This work studies pre-colonial Igbo democracy in national development. In Nigeria democracy, the executive wields much power and this makes it has many lapses these lapses makes the country to be underdeveloped, this is not so in true democracy which the Igbo people practiced in the olden days. The research therefore, was carried out to bring to limelight how Igbo people practiced their democracy in the olden days. This will help in developing the nation if Nigerian government should copy it. Data for this work was collected from various books written by renowned scholars. Functionalist theory was used to analyze how arms of Igbo democracy perform their functions at family, kindred, village and town levels which the representatives of various constituencies in Nigeria fails to do. It was equally used to portray where Nigeria have their lapses and this hinders development in the nation. In view of this, the work suggested that candidates seeking for elective positions should be made to swear with an ofo which is the strength of Igbo democracy. If this is done, both the voters and the leaders will know that the music has changed and everybody will perform their function very well and there would development in all sectors of the nation.
Keywords: democracy, development, igbo, national, pre-colonial