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A proverbial phrase or expression is a type of conventional saying similar to a proverb and transmitted by oral tradition. The difference is that a proverb is a fixed expression, while a proverbial phrase permits alterations to fit the grammar of the context. [1] [2] In 1768, John Ray defined a proverbial phrase as:
A collection of 904 proverbs in their original Lugbara version with a translation and notes in English. Drawn from an area covering the Sudan, Congo Republic, and Northern Uganda. Index by topic and Lugbara words. Saayman, Willem A. (1997). Embracing the Baobab Tree: Volume 5: The African proverb in the 21st century. University of South Africa ...
The Fulani are pastoral cattle herders and so one of their traditional proverbs is "If the cattle die, the Fulbe will die". [1]Fulani proverbs contain the folk wisdom of the Fulani people, expressed in their traditional sayings such as munyal deefan hayre ("patience can cook a stone").
In 1962, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o of Kenya wrote the first East African drama, The Black Hermit, a cautionary tale about "tribalism" (discrimination between African tribes). Among the first pieces of African literature to receive significant worldwide critical acclaim was the novel Things Fall Apart , by Chinua Achebe .
The phrase originated in the United States during the time of slavery, [2] when Africans were denied education, including learning to read.Many if not most enslaved people were kept in a state of ignorance about anything beyond their immediate circumstances which were under the control of owners, the lawmakers and authorities.
Joseph G. Healey is an American Catholic missionary in Kenya who has led a movement to sponsor African proverb scholars to collect proverbs from their own language communities. [380] This led Wolfgang Mieder to dedicate the "International Bibliography of New and Reprinted Proverb Collections" section of Proverbium 32 to Healey. [ 381 ]
Robert Sutherland Rattray, GBE, known as Captain R. S. Rattray (1881 in India – 1938), was a barrister and held a diploma in Anthropology from Oxford.. Traditional adinkra symbols gathered by Rattray, symbolizing values, often with proverbs associated with symbol
Similar to other African proverbs, Nupe proverbs associate or relate people's action to their immediate environment in order to explain or correct particular situations, norms, issues, or problems. They also enlighten, warn and advise, or teach language in order to change perception which is believed to become reality. [citation needed]