section_path: Oral literature/Additional proverbs
section_name: Additional proverbs
paragraph_text: Additional proverbs
  
  Fuata
  
  nyuki
  
  ule
  
  asali.
  
  Fuata nyuki ule asali.
  
  Follow the bee so that you may eat honey.
  
  Baada
  
  ya
  
  dhiki
  
  faraja.
  
  Baada ya dhiki faraja.
  
  After hardship comes relief.
  
  Mgaagaa
  
  na
  
  upwa
  
  hali
  
  wali
  
  mkavu.
  
  Mgaagaa na upwa hali wali mkavu.
  
  The one who busies himself with work will not miss a meal.
  
  Mwacha
  
  mila
  
  ni
  
  mtumwa.
  
  Mwacha mila ni mtumwa.
  
  The person who abandons his culture is a slave.
  
  Two sayings with the same literal meaning of Where elephants fight, the grass is trampled or figuratively speaking, when those with power fight, it is those below them who suffer:
  
  Wapiganapo
  
  tembo
  
  nyasi
  
  huumia.
  
  Wapiganapo tembo nyasi huumia.
  
  Fighting elephants damage the grass.
  
  Ndovu
  
  wawili
  
  wakisongana,
  
  ziumiazo
  
  ni
  
  nyika.
  
  Ndovu wawili wakisongana, ziumiazo ni nyika.
  
  Where two elephants argue, the grassland is damaged.