KENYA
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After a foolish deed comes remorse.
A man who has once been tossed by a buffalo, when he sees a black ox, thinks it's another buffalo.
He who receives a gift does not measure.
He who does not know one thing knows another.
Do not say the first thing that comes to your mind.
A white dog does not bite another white dog.
Try this bracelet: if it fits you, wear it; but if it hurts you, throw it away no matter how shiny it may be.
When you take a knife away from a child, give him a piece of wood instead.
He who is unable to dance says that the yard is stony. [Interpretation]
One finger alone cannot kill even a louse.
Because a man has injured your goat, do not go out and kill his bull.
A man who continually laments is not heeded.
Talking with one another is loving one another.
Absence makes the heart forget.
If a dead tree falls, it carries with it a live one.
Virtue is better than wealth.
There is no phrase without a double meaning.
Hearts do not meet one another like roads.
One does not slaughter a calf before its mother's eyes.
There is no cure that does not cost.
Seeing is different from being told.
It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children.
Thunder is not yet rain.
Soon found soon lost.
Home affairs are not talked about on the public square.
Good millet is known at harvest.
Use of brains
begets wealth.
The man may be the head of the home but his wife is the heart of the home.
It is the toothless animal that arrives first at the base of the fruit tree
to eat his fill before others arrive. [Interpretation]
A fool has many days.
A child (young person) does not fear treading on dangerous ground until he
or she gets hurt (stumbles).
A hyaena cannot smell its own stench.
Only a medicine man gets rich by sleeping.
Links
on Kenya
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/kidsweb/world/kenya/index.htm
http://www.kenyaembassy.com/
http://www.kenyaweb.com/
ttp://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/NEH/ke.html
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/specials/goplaces/0,12405,182117,00.html
