{"id":364,"date":"2010-10-04T14:17:33","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T18:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/outreach\/materials\/handouts\/np\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T09:29:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:29:02","slug":"np","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/outreach\/teachingresources\/literature-language-arts\/np\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Nigerian Proverbs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. The child of an elephant will not be a dwarf. [Like father, like son] (Yoruba)<\/li>\n
  2. What an old man sees while lying down, a young man can never see even when he climbs up in a tree. (Yoruba)<\/li>\n
  3. Only the thing for which you have struggled will last. (Yoruba)<\/li>\n
  4. Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.<\/li>\n
  5. Whoever is patient with a cowrie shell will one day have thousands of them. (Hausa)<\/li>\n
  6. Seeing is better than hearing.<\/li>\n
  7. The day on which one starts out is not the time to start one\u2019s preparations.<\/li>\n
  8. What the child says, he has heard at home.<\/li>\n
  9. A wealthy man will always have followers.<\/li>\n
  10. Fine words do not produce food.<\/li>\n
  11. If you fill your mouth with a razor, you will spit blood.<\/li>\n
  12. Water may cover the footprint on the ground but it does not cover the words of the mouth. (Igbo)<\/li>\n
  13. One who has been bitten by a snake lives in fear of worms. [Once bitten, twice shy.] (Igbo)<\/li>\n
  14. Allah made the silk-cotton tree beautiful, so let the fig tree cease being angry. (Hausa)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    The child of an elephant will not be a dwarf. [Like father, like son] (Yoruba) What an old man sees while lying down, a young man can never see even when he climbs up in a tree. (Yoruba) Only the thing for which you have struggled will last. (Yoruba) Not to know is bad; not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3690,"featured_media":0,"parent":11187,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3690"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23152,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/364\/revisions\/23152"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}