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GBUDUGBUDU AND SURUGEDE PROVERBS

1. Never mind if your nose is ugly as long as you can breathe through it (Zaire)
2. No one shows a child the Supreme Being (Ghana)
3. One bird in the hand is more valuable than two in the woods (Kenya)
4. One does not follow the footprints in the water (S.Africa-Azania)
5. One finger cannot kill a louse (Kenya)
6. One fly causes the whole carcass of a cow to rot (Kenya)
7. One man's stomach does not work for the stomach of somebody else (S. Africa-Azania)
8. One mouth cannot drink from two calabashes at the same time (Uganda)
9. People get fed up even with honey (Uganda)
10. Rather than praise yourself, you should be praised by God (Rwanda)
11. Sleep killed the lion (S. Africa-Azania)
12. Stolen things bring in misfortune (Kenya)
13. The calabash of the kind person breaks no (Nigeria)
14. The clan of "I will do it" was overtaken without having done it (Kenya)
15. The cock drinking water, raises its head to God in thankfulness (Ghana)
16. The creature is not greater than its Creator (Burundi)
17. The day one has plenty to eat, it is the elders who come to the rescue. The day one has nought to eat, it is the elders who come to the rescue (Nigeria)
18. The earth is the mother of all (Nigeria)
19. The enemy prepares a grave, but God prepares you a way of escape (Rwanda)
20. The forest has ears (Kenya)

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