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If you dig a hole to bury a person but instead of burying that person you may be the one to be buried in this place.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

The leopard that covers its black spots with hamaton dust solution will truly be exposed when the rain season comes.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about season, magic, rain

If you are building something and a nail breaks, should you stop building altogether, or should you change the nail?

Proverbs and old sayings West African about change

He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about work

When you ask, you become a fool for a little while and when you don't ask you become a fool for the rest of your life.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about life

No matter how far you have walked in the wrong direction certainly you have to turn back and take the right direction.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about bad, rightness

Don't laugh at the nakedness of our ancestors because before their eyes we're all naked for our spirits belong to them.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about ancestors, eyes

If you see an animal running in the early morning know that it is running away from something more scarily than the due.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

A weapon that you don't have in your hand will not kill a snake. Looking for something can get in the way of finding it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

In a family if you have somebody who is troublesome it's the family members who are worried than the troublesome member.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about family

A child who protested when being stripped on the back by its mother, it's humbled by the scorching sun when left to walk.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about being, sun, children, mother

The rabbit that dances on the broken branch of a high tree must look down to see how many mouths are opened wide beneath.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

If you stoop to see your neighbour's anus, then your own anus is wide open for others to see, even more easily and clearly.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Bones and flesh of the martyrs lie buried in earth, but their revolutionary spirit and single-hearted fidelity remain alive.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about fidelity, spirit, earth, lie

The buttocks are like a married couple though there is constant friction between them; they will still love and live together.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about couple, love

A second wife cannot celebrate the beating of the first wife because that same beating awaits her when the third wife arrives.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about wife

When a tortoise embarks on a journey he doesn't ask for directions, because he does not want his enemies to know where he's going.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about enemies

If there is something one really wants to achieve, one is willing to go an extra mile and overcome the difficulties to achieve it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about difficulties

She is beautiful; she has love, understands; she respects herself and others; everyone likes, loves and honours her; she is a goddess.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about love

If your vision is for a year plant wheat, if you vision is for a decade plant trees, and if your vision is for a lifetime plant people.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about vision, people