The human face of power

By Ekema Emmanuel Likine, Political Sociologist. Whenever people live together in a community, village, town or a country, the phenomenon of power will always dominate their daily life. Power can be defined as the ability to cause others to do things against their will. That said, there are so many types of power that an individual can have within a given society. We have delegated power, intellectual power, physical power and spiritual power just to name a few. Ekema Emmanuel Likine What is of interest to us Sociologists is delegated power. That is, power given to an individual by another…