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The hunger that has hope for its satisfaction does not kill
Sunday, 01.04.2009, 07:02pm

The Igbo people inhabit southeastern Nigeria. Igbo refers to both the people and their language. Occupying a rainforest region, the Igbo were traditionally mainly farmers and their lifestyle was patterned on the farming cycle. Usually between the end ...

If you educate a man you educate an individual.....
Saturday, 08.09.2008, 12:16pm

If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman you educate a family (nation).
Explanation
This well-known saying is attributed to the Ghanaian scholar Dr. James Emmanuel Kwegyir-Aggrey (1875-1927.....

Atannayita: y'atenda nnyina obufumbi
Tuesday, 07.29.2008, 04:10pm

Atannayita: y'atenda nnyina obufumbi (=okufumba)
The person who has not traveled widely thinks his or her mother is the only cook (the best cook). Ganda (Uganda)

Faa yalo dzwaa gbe
Monday, 07.21.2008, 02:47pm

Faa yalo dzwaa gbe.(Ga, Ghana Proverb)
The one who fetches the water is the one who is likely to break the pot. (English )

Kure ndokusina, kwachiri unofa wasvika: Where there is a will there is a way.
Saturday, 07.12.2008, 06:02am

Kure ndokusina, kwachiri unofa wasvika. (Shona):
Far is where there is nothing, where something is that you will struggle to the death to reach. (Literal English translation)
Where there is a will there is a way. (Closest English equivalent proverb)
Shona( Zimbabwe ) Proverb

African Wisdom
Sunday, 07.06.2008, 11:07am

African proverbs and sayings give advice.Growing up, Chuka Odunukwe's dad would tell him, "A black goat is best looked for when the sun is up."It wasn't instructions for capturing farm animals."It's what my father would tell me when I was goofing off," said Odunukwe, the sixth of 11 children.

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