Polycentric interstate federalism among the Yoruba of Nigeria (2022) [pdf]

Oh man this is so cool, thanks!

Thanks!

The author's scholarship brought me to it. I was the guest editor of the journal issue in which this article appeared. Here's the scholar's, um, Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C44&q=oye.... The author hails from Indiana University's Political Science Dept, which is currently one of the most interesting in the world.

It's an poltical sociology paper. It's narrowly observing the federal clan system among the Yoruba ethnic group.

This is not meant to be prescriptive, it's more so comparative.

Also, I'm not sure Hausa, Fulani, Igbo, or other ethnic groups would be interested in adopting a Yoruba socio-political structure when they already have their own structures in place.

> is very similar to what has happened so far with the European Union

Not exactly, because individual EU states still maintain national sovereignty in just about every single affair.

A better comparison to this would be the evolution of federalism in Italy and Germany in the 19th-21st century.

Not OP. HN is a place for hacker and startup discussions. Both groups are interested in the way systems are organised, whether political or information (i.e programming) so there is insight to be gained from novel political systems such as “interstate federalism”.

+1 on this.