Some Hilarious African Proverbs In Pigin

[Charles-Tim]

Very interesting. We have this thread on our local board on bitcointalk platform and here it is. I

I saw the thread about African proverbs in Pidgin on this forum, Altcoinstalks which was created later after 3 months that it has been created on Bitcointalk. I remember that the thread was created by Fivestar4everMVP at the time so the search was easy for me.

Some Hilarious African Proverbs In Pigin

[Gormicsta]

Lion no dey born goat
Meaning: like father like son

One day breeze go blow, fowl yansh go open
Meaning: nothing is hidden under the sun

Cassava today fit be garri tomorrow
Meaning: no condition is permanent

Person wey borrow cloth, no dey dance for party.
Meaning: tread carefully.

[Gormicsta]

Lean on me no be press me die.
Meaning: Don't overstretched your helper

Na condition make crayfish bend.
Meaning: Poverty will humble you.

[Bodhi2021]

Proverb : Water no dey they bitter just like that
Meaning: No smoke without fire.

Proverb: the stick wai go blind eyes, na for far they go stop pam
Meaning: Do the right thing at the right time

[Bodhi2021]

i. A frog dose not run in the day Time is either pursing something or something they pursue ham
ii. I no go teach you how to catch fish and you dey expect me make i teach you how to eat the fish.
Meaning: I won't found you a job and you expect me to come and teach you how to run the Job again for you.

[goaldot]

Proverb: housefly way no get adviser dey follow corpse enter grave.
Meaning: whosoever that doesn't listen dies miserably.

Proverb: pursue little chicken fall, little chicken run commot.
Meaning: anyone that is planning evil thing against someone will befall evil.

Proverb: snake no fit born wetin no get long tail.
Meaning: like father like son.

[Mpamaegbu]

Oh, I don see sey awa people don dey roll wit palm oil wey elders dem dey take eat yam for here, according to China Achebe. Dis wan good too as we dey take do am for d orda forum.

[Stuart]

This one de interesting oh, awa own english too make sense sha, mostly when we come de use am for pidgin take de give proverbs

Proverb: Cut am, cut am na animal body
Meaning: When you keep taking from a particular place/person without replacing, that place/person won't be happy.

[Agbe]

Oga @Stuart, the legendary member in the local board. Welcome back. When I first come to this forum and discovered our local board, na your threads I been dey see everywhere but as you no come dey active again newcomers threads dem come take over everywhere.

Hey oga Op you be old member here too ooo. See this thread na back 2020. No be Children play.

Where the elders stand dey see, the young ones e no dey see even if dem climbed Iroko Tree.

Meaning. Weti elders know, young people e no know.

That means una know more than us about the forum.

[Joeboy]

Old man/woman fit sit down see things wey even if a child climb tree him no go see.
Meaning: The elderly people are more knowledgeable and have more experience than the younger individuals

[Cantsay]

Old man/woman fit sit down see things wey even if a child climb tree him no go see.
Meaning: The elderly people are more knowledgeable and have more experience than the younger individuals

With the day the country dey go now ehn wetin small pikin dey see if old man like make he climb sky scrapper he no go fit still see am. Lol

All jokes though, this proverb brings back memories from childhood when we used to hear things like this from our parents.