A rat will not be the first one to enter a hole and then leave its tail outside.
Don’t let me show you sheep and you show me their footprints.
An in-law’s funeral will not be celebrated with a dog.
Just finish killing your donkey.
Because the testicle is calm, it stays in the underwear; if it is under stress, it will come out.
Even a short man cannot disappear from sight in a groundnut farm.
We have buried the small child of a Fulani.
The sheep from Gambaga does not know how to move forward, but it knows how to move backward.
The ficus tree that is cool will gather bats.
Take this and stop looking at me.
The anus that is known cannot hide.
The one carrying a monkey does not go in the direction of the yam mounds of the dog.
It is the fool’s penis that is stepped on twice.
some Dagbani proverbs (from the Dagomba, the major tribe in the North)
- Does the dog not really refuse the small heaps of goods for sale?
- It is because of its secret that the wild fig tree blossoms at night. (I LOVE THIS ONE)
- If you want to stop your friendship, tell your friend, “look for some rabbit eggs for me.”
- The dog that shits a proud shit will struggle to collect it.
- People roast a frog together and then throw stones at each other.
- Big animals cannot swallow each other.
- The death of the donkey is what brings an end to farting.
- We warm ourselves by the fire and see one another’s testicles.
- It is good to be independent, but what about when you have catarrh and large boils?
- A rabbit says that it doesn’t know under what circumstances it would believe the world and lie on its back.
- You don’t laugh when chasing a small rabbit.
- The earthworm has developed teeth and the night adder hears it and stops being wicked to its neighbour’s children.
- If there is an arrow stuck in my friend’s head that I am pulling out it is better than being stuck in my head.
so true… so true.
