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Proverb of The Month - July 2009

“Gũtirΐ mbiti itari mũnyanya". (Meru)

“Hapana fisi asiye na rafiki.” (Swahili)

“There is no hyena without a friend.” (English)

Meru (Kenya) Proverb

NOTE: Click on the name of the country to get a map
of the African country where the proverb comes from.

Favourite proverb of the month posted in the first half of 2009:

	The hunger that has hope for its satisfaction does not kill.
	An elder's handbag is never completely empty.
	If you get a fine harvest of maize don’t break your local brotherhood and sisterhood.
	Alive, we live in the same house or under the same roof. Dead, we rest in the same tomb.
	A thieving dog knows itself.
	“Go in that direction” does not mean that you go. To go means, “let’s go together!”