It is the challenge between keeping up with conservativeness and embracing the new thinking without being obscure.
Critical Scrutiny

Identify Strong Values: Negotiate view on values and principles contained in practices by breaking them down. To what extent are they motivated by respect, community or a feel of identity?
Challenge Destructive Practices: Challenge the existence of oppressive and discriminative or otherwise, negative practices toward individuals or groups.
reinterpretation and Rethinking:

Update practices:
Transform the primarily conservative structures of old ways into a modern form while keeping them old. As an example, traditional festivals could be presented with mixture of the modern arts, music or technology in presenting the traditional festival to the community.
Inclusive Practices
Always make the previous customs to be flexible so that they may meet all the people despite their sex or their religion or even status.
Education and Dialogue
Promote Understanding:
Make the young people learn from experience about the roots of traditions and make them value it to the maximum.
Promote Dialogue: Promoteraisinglethumb discussions about which values and practices should be preserved, and how the African values can be adapted to suits the advances 21st century world call for.
Technology and Innovation:

Use Technology:
Support documentation of traditional knowledge systems through replicating them in the virtual space through, websites, and other online and digital databases.

-Avoid Literalistic Interpretation: The person must struggle against adolescent literal-dogmatic nepotism with respect to steralized and pathological elements of tradition.
-Allow Individual Choice: Allow the subjects to choose in what manner and to what extent to engage and what meaning to attribute to the traditional practices.
-Embrace Diversity: Appreciation of the multiculturalism and diversity of a society.
Thus, by adopting these practices, we are healthy-bound to msear popular traditions appropriate for the contemporary age orientation of culture wealth as well as the principles of equality, justice and human rights.