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By Ted Malanda
The rule of thumb is you don’t fix something that is not broken. So it beats me why, in our collective wisdom, we sacked tribal chiefs and started electing leaders.
It can’t be a coincidence that in the so called dark ages, long before Facebook and twitter, every African tribe had a leader who was the main rat because he was descended from a long line of chiefs.
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