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African Proverbs Difficult To Understand
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African Proverbs Difficult To Understand
African Proverbs are often difficult to understand because they often refer to local customs or situations. However, among the strongest influences for learning lessons from people long on experience are through a nation's popular proverbs. They come, backed by the authority of the masses and that which everybody says we instinctively accept as true. Naturally, there is a tendency among the 54 African nations to make these compact and concise sayings, carved from real life. African proverbs and sayings are compressed summaries of practical wisdom, pure condensations of life-experience.
Studying African Proverbs
There are many popular African proverbs which are full of truth and worthy of our study on social issues of hunger, injustice and global piracy of African land.
Formed from the wisdom of many proverbs are crystallizations of experience, brief expressions of the wisdom of the ancients. Below are 21 Ancient proverbs worth ruminating over and studying in-depth.
African Proverbs are often difficult to understand
The labors of the poor make the pride of the rich.It is a great way to the bottom of the sea.Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.
Soon ripe, soon rotten.A cat in gloves is a friend to rats.In flying from the wolf, he met the lion.
It is pleasant to look at the rain when one stands dry.Let everyone look to himself, and no one will be lost.In the land of promise a man may die of hunger and want.
He that lives with cripples learns to limp.A hungry belly has no ears.Chickens are plucked as long as the feathers last.
Handsome apples are often sour.See that you tie so that you can untie.Better a land ruined than lost.
If you pull one, pig by the tail all the rest squeak. He who plants fruit trees must not count upon the fruit. Not all bite that shows their teeth.
Heavy purses and light hearts can sustain much. Were fools silent they would pass for wise men. Not all are wise who ride with the King.
Eastern
coasts of Caribbean, United States, and South America, are in danger of being blasted
by hurricanes wind and rain during hurricane season from June through November. But,
why?
The scientific reason why is because of Africa’s
Sahara desert dust storms and the transition of thunderstorms off the west coast
of Africa. The waters in the North Atlantic Ocean are typically at their
warmest while the Sahara is at its hottest from July through October, so the
chances of a hurricane are highest during these months. Hurricanes
are gigantic weather systems using convection, the movement of hot and cold
air, to create dangerous storms. They are rotating heat engines powered by the
warmth of tropical waters having three main parts, the eye, the eyewall, and
rainbands.
Hurricanes cannot form just anywhere in the world due to the need
for hot and humid air. They normally form close to the equator and move west or
northwest. Hurricane Alley is a stretch of warm water through the Atlantic
Ocea…
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.
Explore and Understand Africa Through Her Food and Culture
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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.
Hidden Agenda of Gift-Giving Definition of giving with an ulterior motive is …
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