Today’s African Proverb (9.19.11)

19 September 2011, by DailyLifelines

When a leopard limps, a hare dares to demand payment of a debt.  (Nigeria- Annang) 

2 people like this post.

Like

Unlike

Categories: African Proverbs, Daily Lifelines

Subscribe

Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics) Proverbs

29 December 2010, by DailyLifelines

Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics)
December 29: Day Four of Kwanzaa

• If you sell a drum in your own village, you get the money and keep the sound. —Madagascar
• Money does not stay in one place. —Ghana (Akan)
• No one in the presence of a large sum of money goes hungry to bed. —Ghana (Akan)
• If ten cents does not go out, it does not bring in one thousand dollars. —Ghana (Twi)
• You gain interest only on what you invest. —Lesotho
• You cannot get rich if you look after your relatives properly. —Native American (Navajo)
• Little and often fills the purse. —Tanzania (Zanzibar)
• Generosity is wealth. —Africa
• One person does not build a town. —Ghana (Akan)
• Eat alone, hungry alone. —Virgin Islands

1 person likes this post.

Like

Unlike

Categories: Lifelines

Subscribe

Today’s African Proverb (12.29.10)

29 December 2010, by DailyLifelines

You can’t get rich if you look after your relatives properly. (Native American-Navajo)

3 people like this post.

Like

Unlike

Categories: African Proverbs, Daily Lifelines

Subscribe

Today’s African Proverb (12.24.10)

24 December 2010, by DailyLifelines

Charity is a matter of the heart and not of the pocket. (Tanzania- Zanzibar)

2 people like this post.

Like

Unlike

Categories: African Proverbs, Daily Lifelines

Subscribe

Today’s African Proverb (12.20.10)

20 December 2010, by DailyLifelines

The mule doesn’t pull so well with a mortgage on his back. (U.S. Black Belt South)

3 people like this post.

Like

Unlike

Categories: African Proverbs, Daily Lifelines

Subscribe

Today’s African Proverb (12.15.10)

15 December 2010, by DailyLifelines

Discord between the powerful is a fortune for the poor. (North Africa)

3 people like this post.

Like

Unlike

Categories: African Proverbs, Daily Lifelines

Subscribe

Today’s African Proverb (12.8.10)

8 December 2010, by DailyLifelines

Buying on credit is robbing next year’s crop. (U.S. Black Belt South)

2 people like this post.

Like

Unlike

Categories: African Proverbs, Daily Lifelines

Subscribe

Today’s African Proverb (12.7.10)

7 December 2010, by DailyLifelines

The want of a thing is sometimes more than its worth.  (Jamaica)

2 people like this post.

Like

Unlike

Categories: African Proverbs, Daily Lifelines

Subscribe