Council+of+Elders

- The igbo people lived in autonomous towns and villages governed by their elders

- the people would organize themselves through patrilineages governed by the line of descent

- in interlineage disputes, the elders the affected region come to discuss the solutions

- the authority of the elders is derived from the group's respect of the elders of the founding ancestors

- the elders were keepers of rituals

- no action would be taken until fully argued upon at a lineage meeting of elders