'''Òṣèlú''' je [[ijoba]] [[politics|oniselu]] [[civillian|aralu]] boya to ba wa taara latowolati owo awon araluara ilu tabi ki won fun awon asoju won lase ninu [[election|idiboyan]] lati lo agbara yi. NiÀwon elédè [[ede GeesiGèésì]] o n jepèé ní ''democracy'' to wa lati oroinú [[Greek language|ede Griiki]]: ''δημοκρατία - (dēmokratía)'' totí ó tunmotumo si "agbara aralu"<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20070914202111/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry%3d%2324422 Demokratia, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, "A Greek-English Lexicon", at Perseus]</ref> eyi ti won yi wa lati ''δῆμος (dêmos)'', "aralu" ati ''κράτος (krátos)'' "agbara" larin orundun ikarun-ikerin kJ lati tokasitoka si iru sistemuìlànà oniseluoselu to wa nigbananigba náà ni awon ilu- orile-ede [[Greece|Grisi]], pataki ni [[Classical Athens|Ateni Atijo]] leyin rogbodiyan odun [[508 kJ]].
