Cultship

Despite a long history of administrative autonomy within the Empire and strong cultural ties with the Jukun – the Arago and the Jukun had similar notions of divine chieftaincy and cultship – Keana became a tributary of Bauchi and Sokoto in the mid-nineteenth century and Doma a vassal of Zaria […].

Citizenship rather than subjectship or kinship or cultship has defined the prerogatives and encumbrances of that membership, and the nation-state rather than the neighborhood or the city or the region established its scope.

Unfortunately, these khaki governments end up creating elitism and cultship as they ascend the thrones of the various African countries.