Akan Proverbs

If you do not have sandals, find some, if you do not have gun powder, find some for a score to settle with you on the battle grounds. Akan Proverbs Image

If you do not have sandals, find some, if you do not have gun powder, find some for a score to settle with you on the battle grounds.

Although the snake does not fly, it has caught the hornbill, whose home is in the sky. Akan Proverbs Image

Although the snake does not fly, it has caught the hornbill, whose home is in the sky.

The knot tied by a wiseman cannot be undone by a fool. Akan Proverbs Image

The knot tied by a wiseman cannot be undone by a fool.

When a shield wears out, the framework still remains. Akan Proverbs Image

When a shield wears out, the framework still remains.

The clever bird is easily trapped in the leaves at the edges. Akan Proverbs Image

The clever bird is easily trapped in the leaves at the edges.

The child is capable of splitting open the snail, not the tortoise. Akan Proverbs Image

The child is capable of splitting open the snail, not the tortoise.

You are the subject of he whose handcuffs you wear. Akan Proverbs Image

You are the subject of he whose handcuffs you wear.

The good mother knows what her children will eat. Akan Proverbs Image

The good mother knows what her children will eat.

The gun catridge-belt of akowua has never been known to lack bullets. Akan Proverbs Image

The gun catridge-belt of akowua has never been known to lack bullets.

The one who asks questions doesn’t lose his way. Akan Proverbs Image

The one who asks questions doesn’t lose his way.

When the hen steps on the feet of her chicken, she does not mean to kill them. Akan Proverbs Image

When the hen steps on the feet of her chicken, she does not mean to kill them.

Death’s ladder is there for everyone to climb. Akan Proverbs Image

Death’s ladder is there for everyone to climb.

Only birds of the same clan or species play together on the same tree. Akan Proverbs Image

Only birds of the same clan or species play together on the same tree.

The tsetse-fly is perched on the tortoise’s back in vain. Akan Proverbs Image

The tsetse-fly is perched on the tortoise’s back in vain.

If a horn deserves a jawbone, they attach one to it. Akan Proverbs Image

If a horn deserves a jawbone, they attach one to it.

If all the seeds that fall were to grow, then no one could follow Akan Proverbs Image

If all the seeds that fall were to grow, then no one could follow

If an ass goes a-traveling, he’ll not come home a horse. Akan Proverbs Image

If an ass goes a-traveling, he’ll not come home a horse.

The puff adder that cannot fly has caught the hornbill that flies. Akan Proverbs Image

The puff adder that cannot fly has caught the hornbill that flies.

You do not need a big stick to break a cock’s head. Akan Proverbs Image

You do not need a big stick to break a cock’s head.

Fowls will not spare a cockroach that falls in their midst. Akan Proverbs Image

Fowls will not spare a cockroach that falls in their midst.

When you go to a town and you see the chief of the town is in handcuffs Akan Proverbs Image

When you go to a town and you see the chief of the town is in handcuffs

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