ZOOLACRATICISM AND CANNIBALISM - A DISCUSSION OF HISTORICAL DISPOSITION TOWARDS THE SHAKAN MODEL OF SOCIAL-ORDER AND POLITICAL RIGHTS

The Government of the Zoolas. - It would almost puzzle a De Lolme, or any of the ancient writers on governments, to define that of the Zoola s; and I may assert, without the least apprehension of its being contr overted, that it is indisputably the most incomprehensible government with which any known nation on the face of the earth is conversant. In one part of this work I have, from not being able to find anything ap proximating to it, among the ancient or modem states, designated it a Zoolacratical government-an appellation to which, from its inexplicabi lity, I thought it entitled. Its outline, however, may be said to be p erfectly simple-namely, despotic (Nathanial Isaacs, Travels and Advent ure in Eastern Africa (1836, third edition, 1970: 295).