'''Òṣèlú''' je [[ijoba]] [[politics|oniseluìṣèlú]] [[civillian|araluará ìlu]] boya to ba wa taara lati owo awon ara ilu tabi ki won fun awon asoju won lase ninu [[election|idiboyan]] lati lo agbara yi. Àwon elédè [[Gèésì]] n pèé ní ''democracy'' to wa lati inú [[Greek language|ede Griiki]]: ''δημοκρατία - (dēmokratía)'' tí ó tumo 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 toka si iru ìlànà oselu to wa nigba náà ni awon ilu orile-ede [[Greece|Grisi]], pataki ni [[Classical Athens|Ateni Atijo]] leyin rogbodiyan odun [[508 kJ]].<ref name="Encyclopedia Britannica 1992">{{cite web | title=democracy - History, Development, Systems, Theory, & Challenges | website=Encyclopedia Britannica | date=1992-12-07 | url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/democracy | access-date=2018-11-07}}</ref>
