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Lies the Maiden Told African Folktale
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Lies and Damn Lies the Maiden Told African Folktale
True friends never lie
If a friend can't trust you, if someone doesn't trust you, that means they are truly untrustworthy.
Lies the Maiden Told African Folktale
Explore and Understand Africa Through Her Food and Culture
9-25-2017
What's it like to be friends with someone you know you can't trust?
Five maidens one day took their baskets and went to the river to fish. One of their numbers caught many fishes, while the other four caught none at all. And they said to their more fortunate friend: "Let us have a few of your fishes; you have so many, and we have none at all."
"No!" said she, "what I have caught I keep for myself.
And they all started for home.
They had gone quite a distance when the maiden who had caught the many fishes discovered, that she had lost her arm-ring charm.
And she asked her companions to go along back with her and help her find it.
"No!" said they. "Ask your fishes to go along with you. You know that we are your friends, yet you would not let us have a few fishes when we asked you!"
So the maiden went alone to the river.
There she met a Python. On seeing him, she became charmed by him and was unable to move from the spot. And the Python killed and devoured her.
Thus, this selfish maiden because of her lies not only lost all of her fishes, but her life as well.
The Maiden showed true selfishness being concerned only for herself regardless of her friends and she paid for her deceit with her life.
Five African Proverbs About Deceit and Selfishness
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Rich get richer
Survival of the Fattest, obese Europeans starving Africa
Survival of the Fattest is a sculpture of a small starving African man, carrying Lady Justice, a huge obese European woman who is a symbol of the rich world.
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Survival of the Fattest Meaning The copper statue Survival of the Fattest by Jens Galschiøt and Lars Calmar was created in 2002. The fat woman is holding a pair of scales as a symbol of justice however; she is
closing her eyes so the justice. Galschiot symbolized the woman as being blind, refusing to see the obvious
injustice. For the rich people of the world the main issue in life is that of overeating while people in the third world are dying every day from
hunger. The misery of imbalanced wealth distribution is creating floods of refugees. However the rich only want to preserve their privileges and take measures so harsh against the poor, they betray their morals …
It is easy to talk the talk and give advice African Proverb
African Proverb
It's easy to talk the talk and give advice on love, careers or even recycling on how things should be done. But, the person giving the advice does not act in a way that agrees with the advice they are giving. The proverb implies that a person should back up their talking with action.
It is easy to talk the talk and give advice
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1-30-2015
Beware of the naked man who offers you clothes is a proverb used to call out hypocrites; people who are single but give advice on how to have a happy marriage, a person who is overweight supplying dieting tips, environmentalists who do not recycle, people on social media who want to show you how to become rich when they are poor, and politicians who send their children to private school while making speeches on the virtues of public school.
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South Africa food is one of the most diverse on the African continent. South African apricot beef curry is an easy delicious slow cooker dinner recipe to make on a weeknight. South African Apricot Bee…
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