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Woankasa wo tiri ho a, yɛyi wo ayibɔne.
“If you don’t direct the barber on the type of haircut you want, you always get a bad one.”
-Akan proverb
Explanation: A prudent person expresses their concerns to others lest those concerns be ignored.
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yɛyi wo ayibɔne
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Asante.
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Karibu. Where are you getting these from with the inaccurate spellings?
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African Proverbs as Epistemologies of Decolonization by George Sefa Dei.
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How is the book otherwise?
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It is good. They have a number of proverbs from the Gonja, which one often does not encounter. The commentaries are also interesting.
It’s too bad that the Akan spellings are inaccurate. Is the orthography consistent across dialects, I mean at a systemic level? Might that be the issue? I know that you’ve pointed this out with other publications.
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