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Today’s African Proverb (12.28.11)

Make a bed for the children of other people in the place where your own children sleep. (Yoruba) 1 person likes this...

Far is where mother is; where there is the woman you love you will expend all effort, even to death, to get...

Greet everyone cordially when you don’t know who your in-laws are going to be. (- Madagascar) Be the first to like. Like...

Greet everyone cordially when you don’t know who your in-laws are going to be. (Madagascar) 2 people like this post. Like Unlike

You can’t get rich if you look after your relatives properly. (- Native American-Navajo) Be the first to like. Like Unlike

The family is like the forest. If you are outside, it is dense; if you are inside, you see that each tree...