West Africa travel, African safari tours, west African tourism and mali tourism: Leisure Afrique

" Na fly wey no dey hear advice, dey follow dead body enter grave". "What the elders see sitting, a child cannot see standing". "He who sells sand as goods should not complain when he receives pebbles as payment". "He who beats drum for a madman to dance is not better than the madman himself". "The soil cannot go into spitting competition with the sky because it can never win". * The left hand washes the right and the right washes the left.* If you go too near your relatives, they will not respect you.* The soul of a rich man has no taboos.* People working on the slope of a mountain do not look at the buttocks of one another.* If the strong man has nothing else, he can at least command others.* One strong man does not catch another strong man.* If two selfish young men sit next to a pot of water, the water spills out on the ground.* If youthful pride were wealth, then every man would have had it in his lifetime.* What people get by hard work they don't get for their neighbors.* If an opportunity is not taken when it comes, it passes away.* There is no distinction among the common baskets made of palm branches.* He who seems to be for you may be working against you.* Little palm tree, stop crying, you child is the tall palm tree.* If the young palm tree wants to stay alive, it grows next to the odum tree.* One palm nut cannot be peeled twice.* The blood soup made of one palm nut is shared in little drops.* "I will get it because I can," one says with a reason (based on experience).* If you come near the river, you will hear the crab cough.* Even though the sound of the horn is not pleasant, it is still blown by a man's mouth.* You make a new arrow by comparing it to an old one.* The witch is going! The witch is going! but if you are not a witch you don't turn around to look.* The witch kills "he ate and he did not give me", but she does not kill, "he gave me too little."* It is not only one person who bathes in the witch's water.* If two proverbs are not similar, one is not used to explain the other.* When the palm nuts ripen, you carry half and I carry half.* It is only one bad palm tree that spoils the whole lot of palm wine.* The strength of the palm tree is in its branches.* The army of the palm tree is its branches.* Even though the peel of the palm nut has no pulpy substance in it, it is stripped off all the same (and the oil is extracted).* The prickly branches of the palm tree do not show preference even to friends.* The grasshopper which is always near its mother eats the best food.* A true person is the one who gives birth to a foolish child.* The water, which boils, does not forget its home.* Scolding woman has self to blame when husband who liked her puts her away. A fowl shuns poisonous worm you should know enough to avoid dangerous things. *A black ant will not bite another (black ant). *When the rock is not around, the small stone sits there. *The alarm from the other house does not prevent one from eating. *No one can perform a celebration by himself. *A debt between children born by the same mother is paid in a clever way. * If the building of a nest were easy, would the little "apatipers" bird roost in the fork of a tree? * Even if the old woman has no teeth, her tiger nuts remain in her own bag. *A home carries weight because of the husband.

Friday 9 May 2008