Move Your Feet
“When a way is long, you shorten it with your feet, not a hatchet.” Oji
Seeing the Sky
Monday Does Not Come One Monday Only
“Monday does not come one Monday only.” Accra
Badness
“My badness is more manifest than my goodness; you lock up my goodness in the room, and sell my badness in the markets.” (Efik)
Stop Being Extra!
“It is not worth talking about a slip of the foot as if it were a fall.” (Efik)
Fowl Nobody Fren
“If the goat has anything, he eats it with the fowl; if the fowl gets his portion, he goes up on the roof of the house.” Efik
The Mouth Stumbles
“When the mouth stumbles, it is worse than the foot.” (Oji)
The Pig in the Mire
“The pig, having done wallowing in the mire, is seeking some clean person to rub against.” (Yoruba)
Fear Who Sends You
“We should fear him who sends us with a message, not to whom we are sent.” (Yoruba)
Love is Like Young Rice
“Love is like young rice: transplanted, still it grows.” (Madagascar)
Not All Flowers
“Not all the flowers of a tree bear fruit.” (Mauritania)
Knowledge is a Garden
“Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.” (Ghana)
Shaving
“He who does not shave you, does not cut you.”
Your Host’s House
“Do not leave your host’s house, throwing mud in his well.”
Over the Lion’s Body
“What is said over the dead lion’s body, could not said to him alive.” (Zaire)
A Fault Confessed
“A fault confessed is half redressed.”
Sorrow is Like a Precious Treasure
“Sorrow is like a precious treasure, only to be shown to friends.”
Making the Dew Fall
“To love someone who doesn’t love you is like shaking the tree to make the dew drops fall.”
Tief frum Tief, God Laff
Tief frum Tief, God Laff
