Bantu Proverbs
Bantu Sayings Bantu peoples is used as a general label for the 300–600 ethnic groups in Africa who speak Bantu languages . They inhabit a geographical area stretching east and southward from Central Africa across the African Great Lakes region down to Southern Africa. ( Source ) The power of the crocodile is in the water. Who suffers from diarrhea, is not afraid of the dark. Words in conversation are like beans, one breaks them off where they are ripe. A redeemer of people is a walker with people. A good deed will make a good neighbor. You take a bull by the horns and a man by his words. It is the grass that knows where the snake goes. To marry is to put a snake in one's handbag. Adjoining houses always burn. We celebrated at the wax door, and all the time the honeycomb was empty within. What one won't eat by itself, one will eat when mixed with other food. One mouth doesn't taste the beer. People get to know one another when traveling. The bitter heart ea...