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Writer's pictureCharity-Keisha Kamwendo

Wisdom Wednesday: Malawian Proverbs 🇲🇼🍃


•Don't think there are no crocodiles just because the water's calm.

•If you have, give; if you need, seek.

•You cannot pick up a pebble with one finger.

•When a dead tree falls, the woodpeckers profit from his death.

•It is the fate of the coconut husk to float, for the stone to sink

•As a child, is a man wrapped in his mother's womb; as an adult, in tradition; comes death, and he is wrapped in earth.

•Crime leaves a trail like a water beetle; like a snail, it leaves its silver track; like a horse-mango, it leaves its smell.

•Do not be like the mosquito that bites the owner of the house.


•A piece of incense may be as large as the knee, but unless burned emits no fragrance.

•He can see a louse as far away as China but is not aware of an elephant on his nose.


•One muddy buffalo makes the whole herd dirty.



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