UNIVERSITY of Zambia political historian Professor Bizeck Phiri says political leaders need to be humble and find other ways of communicating with people, not just through rallies. Recently, various opposition political party leaders have lamented that there is a shrinking democratic space in the country, citing incidences where police have denied them permits to hold rallies. Commenting on this in an interview, Professor Phiri advised political party leaders to utilise social media as a means of communicating with the people, arguing that he did not buy into the idea that there was a shrinking democratic space. “The challenge is that, from my observation, a number of political leaders, the issue of freedom of expression, of speech and holding public rallies,...