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Sun Mar 11 2001 at 7:19:01
Better to walk than grow angry with the road
.
At the bottom of
patience
there is heaven.
Hope
is the pillar of the world.
It is the heart that carries one to hell or to heaven.
He who travels
alone
tells lies.
A blind man does not show the way to the blind.
The surface of water is beautiful, but it is not good to sleep on.
Nobody wars with
ghosts
.
When the
spider
would attack, it simply extends its web.
The young cannot teach tradition to the old.
Ashes fly back in the faces of those that throw them
.
Wherever a man goes to dwell, his character goes with him.
Calamity has no voice: true
suffering
rarely speaks.
Alone, wisdom destroys you; with another, you destroy wisdom.
Defend us from the wrath of the meek
.
Source:
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton
,
Wit and Wisdom from West Africa
(London: Tinsley, 1865), 332p. Burton spent several years throughout Western and Central Africa (what is now the Sudan, Ethiopia and Nigeria) looking for the source of the Nile at the behest and under the patronage of
the Royal Society
(a story well portrayed, incidentally, in the film "Mountains of the Moon"). These translations of proverbs are exhaustively footnoted in Burton's text, with reference to other cultures' similar tenets, particularly those of
Islam
.
Liberia
Slave Coast
Jollaf rice
Aido Hwedo
French West Africa
The Song of the Shirt
balafon
djembe
Nigeria
Nigerian Food
egg for chicken
Fish from the sky
Amadou & Mariam
Cultural discrimination in cookery
The turkey, he faint
Central Africa
African-American
Catching water in Port Harcourt
wetapunga
The Mende
Nana Buluku
Steve Coleman