120 AFRICAN POLITICAL SYSTEMS
the public weal; to rely on them without at the same time training them in new functions, and adding to them other elements, especially for the more educated members -of the tribe, is to build on a foundation that cannot endure, and to deny to the commoner the experience of administration he will require to have in the future. Similarly, the co-ordination of the activities of each of the smaller political units known as ifyalo is at present one which Is based on the intimate relationship between the chiefs ruling each, and the ritual which unites them. There Is no official representation of each district on the Paramount Council, since all the baka-bUo are drawn from his own territory, however much they consider themselves responsible for the affairs of the whole tribe. Ritual prohibitions still prevent the frequent meetings of the big territorial chiefs themselves, though they do occasionally come together at Government ndabas outside their own capitals. Hence, If It ever became necessary to provide for closer co-ordination of the different districts or for local representation, it appears that a general tribal council of the type of the National Council of the Basuto or the libandla of the Swazi would have to be constituted In this tribe.