Namwamba: Stop crying wolf... just make devolution work

By Ababu Namwamba

The Boy who Cried Wolf” is a Greek fable of a shepherd boy who tricks nearby villagers into thinking a wolf is attacking his flock.  He repeats this so many times that when the sheep are actually confronted by a wolf, the villagers do not believe his cries for help and the flock is destroyed. Applying the moral of this story to political alarmism, Samuel Croxal asks: “When we are alarmed with imaginary dangers in respect of the public, till the cry grows quite stale and threadbare, how can it be expected we should know when to guard ourselves against real ones?”