Nothing about us without us: We no longer need traditional leadership; decisions that affect communities should involve all the people concerned
is steadily losing its relevance for its subjects. It is becoming difficult to defend what is supposed to be the need for this type of leadership in modern-day society.
In a similar way to the Athens of that time, important social groups are not part of tribal or traditional leadership. If the world was able to adopt Athenian democracy and contextualise it to suit social contexts and times, then why is it so difficult to review and reset some of our cultural practices to suit the current era?
There are attempts from the government to include our traditional leadership into governance processes but these efforts are meaningless, because we have people who have no clue about the running of the government itself; for instance, they do not even know what to do when people do not have water. These community protests often occur due to breakdowns in communication. It is no secret that many communities have, and neither is the traditional leadership.
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