GBUDUGBUDU AND SURUGEDE PROVERBS

1. Axes carried in the same bag cannot avoid rattling (Kenya).

2. Cattle are born with ears, their horns grow later.

3. Cattle lick each other because they know each other (S. Africa-Azania)

4. Chiefs are not chiefs to women (Uganda)

5. Children confer glory on a home (Nigeria)

6. Cunning does not last for a year (S. Africa-Azania)

7. Do not abandon a child when it has an itching sore (S. Africa-Azania)

8. Do not desire a woman with beautiful breasts-if you have not money (S. Africa-Azania)

9. Do not laugh at the snake because it walks on its belly (S. Africa-Azania)

10. Don't cut a carrying strap for a child before it is born (Kenya)

11. Faeces is the food of flies (Uganda)

12. God arranges things so that a leper's sandal breaks under the camel-foot-shrub, which provides the rope to mend it (Ghana)

13. God exercises vengeance in silence (Burundi, Rwanda)

14. God goes above any shield (Rwanda)

15. God is never in a hurry; but He is always there at the proper time (Ethiopia)

16. God is sharper than a razor (Kenya)

17. God knows the things of tomorrow (Burundi)

18. God saves the afflicted according to His will (Uganda)

19. He who eats alone, dies alone (Kenya)

20. He who finds the occasion to hurt others will be hurt by them tomorrow (S. Africa-Azania)

21. He who has diarrhea knows the direction of the door without being told (Uganda)

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