I imagine that the African saying of “it takes a village” was more like growing up 40 years ago or more when it was okay for your neighbor to help or punish a neighbor’s child. (Many places are still like that.) I know I could count on a neighbor to feed me or clean up a wound, and to also punish me if they caught me doing something. Usually the later!
It has nothing to do with the government.
So like Mayberry, North Carolina.