Tanzanian Proverbs and Sayings
13 Tanzanian sayings collected from Tanzania — 6 proverbs, 1 quote, 6 short stories.
About Tanzanian sayings here
This page collects every saying in the archive recorded as coming from Tanzania: 6 proverbs, 1 quote, 6 short stories. None of them carries a written explanation yet — the meanings are being written over time.
The named voices here are Joseph G Healey (3), Father Lou Quinn (1), Reginald Mengi (1) and Father Donald Sybertz (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 Community, Poverty, Family, Wisdom and Children.
A few from this collection:
- A wise person will always find a way.
- I pointed out to you the stars and the moon but all you saw was the tip of my finger.
- Little by little, a little becomes a lot.
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