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               Land and traditional             with identifiable and structured social strata that subsequently
               politics of Africa               develop economically with the constrained but brilliant ideas
                                                of how a society should be managed economically.
               Land and politics are two

               inseparable dynamics that        The powerful men proclaimed themselves as chiefs and kings
               date back to the  Iron Age       of strong African kingdoms, and their social formations
               and cannot be ignored            took up enormous tracts of land. Complex politics emerged
               because they herald the          after such shifts. While the transition had both benefits and

               emergence of social groups       drawbacks, the most important aspect was the establishment




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