Ghanaian Proverbs and Sayings
54 Ghanaian sayings collected from Ghana — 50 proverbs, 3 quotes, 1 short story. Including Akan and Ashanti proverbs.
About Ghanaian sayings here
This page collects every saying in the archive recorded as coming from Ghana: 50 proverbs, 3 quotes, 1 short story. 4 of them carry a written explanation of what it means; the rest are being added over time.
The named voices here are Kwame Nkrumah (1), Israelmore Ayivor (1) and Peter Sarpong (1). The proverbs are left unattributed, because a proverb belongs to the people who repeat it rather than to whoever first said it.
The subjects they return to most often are Fool, Wealth, Marriage, Women and Caution.
A few from this collection:
- A hand cannot wash itself. Each hand must take a turn in washing the other for both hands to be clean.
- No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.
- If you go through the high grass where the elephant has already gone through, you don't get soaked with the dew.
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