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Saturday, May 14, 2011
Hakuna Matata: Double Meaning Quotes T-Shirts
I am an avid fan of quotes, blame it on my late father who was quite the collector of quote books. So for a while now I have been playing around with the idea of a quote website (I know it's overdone, hopefully I can do it differently). Quotes are a common thread in most of my online writing and I have also created a few art products featuring them. I am now moving onto a different line of quote products and will be opening a new Zazzle store debuting them. However, in the meantime here is a sample of one of my famous quotes t-shirts. It was inspired by my good friends Musonda and Andrew and a cool website they showed me called wordboner.com. My t-shirt features the African quote, "Hakuna Matata," which was made famous by "The Lion King," movie. Hakuna Matata, is a Swahili phrase which means "There are No problems or No Worries." My t-shirt has a double meaning which when read one way says, "Hakuna Matata meaning No Worries," and when read another way says ,"Kuna Matata meaning There are Problems." Enjoy it and look for more double-meaning quote products coming soon.
Hakuna Matata_Famous African Quotes T Shirts Kenya by Injete
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Hakuna Matata_Famous African Quotes T Shirts Kenya by Injete
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
African Wisdom: A Collection of African Quotes
I love quotes I think it’s a passion I got from my father who often quoted Shakespeare and had a collection of books with quotes. In commemoration of Black History month I have decided to post a collection of some of my favorite African Quotes and Proverbs on a variety of topics. These quotes are full of wisdom and give us a glimpse into African Culture and History. When you follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him. ~Ashanti Proverb
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African Quotes on Wisdom
1. Wisdom is wealth. - Swahili
2. Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. - Akan Proverb
3. The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~Ethiopian Proverb
4. Wisdom does not come overnight. – Somali
5. The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water. ~ Cameroon
6. Wisdom is like fire. People take it from others. - Hema (DRC) Proverb
7. Only a wise person can solve a difficult problem. ~Akan Proverb
8. Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand. ~ Guinean Proverb
9. In the moment of crisis, the wise build bridges and the foolish build dams. ~Nigerian
10. If you are filled with pride, then you will have no room for wisdom.
11. A wise person will always find a way. ~Tanzanian Proverb
12. Nobody is born wise. ~African Proverb
African Quotes on Learning
1. Learning expands great souls. ~Namibian Proverb
2. To get lost is to learn the way.
3. By crawling a child learns to stand.
4. If you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents. ~African Proverb
5. He who learns, teaches. ~ Ethiopian Proverb
6. Wealth, if you use it, comes to an end; learning, if you use it, increases. ~Swahili Proverb
7. By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree. ~Buganda Proverb
8. You always learn a lot more when you lose than when you win. ~African Proverb
9. You learn how to cut down trees by cutting them down. ~Bateke Proverb
10. The wise create proverbs for fools to learn, not to repeat. ~African Proverb
11. What you help a child to love can be more important than what you help him to learn. ~African Proverb
12. By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed. ~Ashanti Proverb
13. One who causes others misfortune also teaches them wisdom. ~African Proverb
14. You do not teach the paths of the forest to an old gorilla. ~Congolese Proverb
15. What you learn is what you die with. ~African Proverb
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African Quotes on Unity and Community
1. Unity is strength, division is weakness. – Swahili
2. Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. - Bondei
3. It takes a village to raise a child. – African proverb
4. Cross the river in a crowd and the crocodile won't eat you. - African proverb
5. Many hands make light work. - Haya (Tanzania)
6. Where there are many, nothing goes wrong. – Swahili
7. Two ants do not fail to pull one grasshopper. – Tanzania
8. A single bracelet does not jingle. - Congo
9. A single stick may smoke, but it will not burn.
10. If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. - African proverb
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African Quotes on Family
1. A family is like a forest, when you are outside it is dense, when you are inside you see that each tree has its place.
2. A united family eats from the same plate. – Baganda
3. A family tie is like a tree, it can bend but it cannot break.
4. If I am in harmony with my family, that's success. – Ute
5. Brothers love each other when they are equally rich.
6. He who earns calamity, eats it with his family.
7. Dine with a stranger but save your love for your family. – Ethiopian
8. The old woman looks after the child to grow its teeth and the young one in turn looks after the old woman when she loses her teeth. - Akan (Ghana, Ivory Coast)
9. When brothers fight to the death, a stranger inherits their father's estate. – Ibo
10. Children are the reward of life.
African Love Quotes and Marriage Quotes
1. He who loves the vase loves also what is inside. - African Proverb
2. It's much easier to fall in love than to stay in love. ~African Proverb
3. Coffee and love taste best when hot. ~Ethiopian Proverb
4. Where there is love there is no darkness. ~Burundian Proverb
5. If you are ugly you must either learn to dance or make love. - Zimbabwean Proverb
6. Pretend you are dead and you will see who really loves you. ~African Proverb
7. To love the king is not bad, but a king who loves you is better. ~Wolof Proverb
8. A happy man marries the girl he loves, but a happier man loves the girl he marries. - African Proverb
9. If you marry a monkey for his wealth, the money goes and the monkey remains as is. - Egyptian Proverb
10. Love never gets lost it's only kept. ~African Proverb
11. Never marry a woman who has bigger feet than you. – Mozambique
12. One thread for the needle, one love for the heart. - Sudanese Proverb
13. Love has to be shown by deeds not words. – Swahili
14. Love is a despot who spares no one. ~Namibian Proverb
15. Marriage is like a groundnut; you have to crack it to see what is inside. – Ghana
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African Quotes on Patience
1. Patience is the key which solves all problems. - Sudanese
2. Hurry hurry has no blessings. – Swahili
3. Patience is the mother of a beautiful child. - Bantu
4. To run is not necessarily to arrive. - Swahili
5. Patience can cook a stone.
6. A patient man will eat ripe fruit.
7. At the bottom of patience one finds heaven.
8. A patient person never misses a thing. - Swahili
9. Always being in a hurry does not prevent death, neither does going slowly prevent living. – Ibo
10. However long the night, the dawn will break.
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African Quotes on Music
African Quotes on Wisdom
1. Wisdom is wealth. - Swahili
2. Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. - Akan Proverb
3. The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~Ethiopian Proverb
4. Wisdom does not come overnight. – Somali
5. The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water. ~ Cameroon
6. Wisdom is like fire. People take it from others. - Hema (DRC) Proverb
7. Only a wise person can solve a difficult problem. ~Akan Proverb
8. Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand. ~ Guinean Proverb
9. In the moment of crisis, the wise build bridges and the foolish build dams. ~Nigerian
10. If you are filled with pride, then you will have no room for wisdom.
11. A wise person will always find a way. ~Tanzanian Proverb
12. Nobody is born wise. ~African Proverb
African Quotes on Learning
1. Learning expands great souls. ~Namibian Proverb
2. To get lost is to learn the way.
3. By crawling a child learns to stand.
4. If you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents. ~African Proverb
5. He who learns, teaches. ~ Ethiopian Proverb
6. Wealth, if you use it, comes to an end; learning, if you use it, increases. ~Swahili Proverb
7. By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree. ~Buganda Proverb
8. You always learn a lot more when you lose than when you win. ~African Proverb
9. You learn how to cut down trees by cutting them down. ~Bateke Proverb
10. The wise create proverbs for fools to learn, not to repeat. ~African Proverb
11. What you help a child to love can be more important than what you help him to learn. ~African Proverb
12. By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed. ~Ashanti Proverb
13. One who causes others misfortune also teaches them wisdom. ~African Proverb
14. You do not teach the paths of the forest to an old gorilla. ~Congolese Proverb
15. What you learn is what you die with. ~African Proverb
African Quotes on Unity and Community
1. Unity is strength, division is weakness. – Swahili
2. Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. - Bondei
3. It takes a village to raise a child. – African proverb
4. Cross the river in a crowd and the crocodile won't eat you. - African proverb
5. Many hands make light work. - Haya (Tanzania)
6. Where there are many, nothing goes wrong. – Swahili
7. Two ants do not fail to pull one grasshopper. – Tanzania
8. A single bracelet does not jingle. - Congo
9. A single stick may smoke, but it will not burn.
10. If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. - African proverb
African Quotes on Family
1. A family is like a forest, when you are outside it is dense, when you are inside you see that each tree has its place.
2. A united family eats from the same plate. – Baganda
3. A family tie is like a tree, it can bend but it cannot break.
4. If I am in harmony with my family, that's success. – Ute
5. Brothers love each other when they are equally rich.
6. He who earns calamity, eats it with his family.
7. Dine with a stranger but save your love for your family. – Ethiopian
8. The old woman looks after the child to grow its teeth and the young one in turn looks after the old woman when she loses her teeth. - Akan (Ghana, Ivory Coast)
9. When brothers fight to the death, a stranger inherits their father's estate. – Ibo
10. Children are the reward of life.
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African Love Quotes and Marriage Quotes
1. He who loves the vase loves also what is inside. - African Proverb
2. It's much easier to fall in love than to stay in love. ~African Proverb
3. Coffee and love taste best when hot. ~Ethiopian Proverb
4. Where there is love there is no darkness. ~Burundian Proverb
5. If you are ugly you must either learn to dance or make love. - Zimbabwean Proverb
6. Pretend you are dead and you will see who really loves you. ~African Proverb
7. To love the king is not bad, but a king who loves you is better. ~Wolof Proverb
8. A happy man marries the girl he loves, but a happier man loves the girl he marries. - African Proverb
9. If you marry a monkey for his wealth, the money goes and the monkey remains as is. - Egyptian Proverb
10. Love never gets lost it's only kept. ~African Proverb
11. Never marry a woman who has bigger feet than you. – Mozambique
12. One thread for the needle, one love for the heart. - Sudanese Proverb
13. Love has to be shown by deeds not words. – Swahili
14. Love is a despot who spares no one. ~Namibian Proverb
15. Marriage is like a groundnut; you have to crack it to see what is inside. – Ghana
African Quotes on Patience
1. Patience is the key which solves all problems. - Sudanese
2. Hurry hurry has no blessings. – Swahili
3. Patience is the mother of a beautiful child. - Bantu
4. To run is not necessarily to arrive. - Swahili
5. Patience can cook a stone.
6. A patient man will eat ripe fruit.
7. At the bottom of patience one finds heaven.
8. A patient person never misses a thing. - Swahili
9. Always being in a hurry does not prevent death, neither does going slowly prevent living. – Ibo
10. However long the night, the dawn will break.
African Quotes on Music
- Music speaks louder than words. - African Proverb
- Birds sing not because they have answers but because they have songs. - African Proverb
- Music and women should not be dated. - African Proverb
- Even a horn can be stopped from fighting and made to sing forever. - African Proverb
- Good music goes with good food. - African Proverb
- Who does not love to dance, does not love to sing. - Lango Proverb
- He who understands music understands the cosmos. - Egyptian Proverb
Saturday, January 1, 2011
African Women: Proverbs, Poetry and Art
In keeping with the spirit of the New Year I decided to go back to my roots for some words of wisdom. Here are some African proverbs , poetry and art about women, friendship and motherhood.
African Friendship Quotes
1. The friends of our friends are our friends. - Congo
2. A friend is someone you share the path with. - African proverb
3. To be without a friend is to be poor indeed. - Tanzania
4. Because friendship is pleasant, we partake of our friend's entertainment; not because we have not enough to eat in our own house. - African proverb
5. Hold a true friend with both hands. - African proverb
6. A friend is someone you share the path with. - African proverb
7. Show me your friend and I will show you your character. - African proverb
8. Sorrow is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends. - African proverb
9. Return to old watering holes for more than water; friends and dreams are there to meet you. - African proverb
10. Between true friends even water drunk together is sweet enough. - African proverb
11. A small house will hold a hundred friends. - African proverb
12. A close friend can become a close enemy. - African proverb
13. Bad friends will prevent you from having good friends. - Gabon
African Mother Quotes
1. The good mother knows what her children will eat. - Akan Proverb
2. Parents give birth to the body of their children, but not always to their characters. - Ganda Proverb
3. Only a mother would carry the child that bites. - Nigerian Proverb
4. Even though the baby monkey appears so ugly it's mother loves it anyway. - African proverb
5. The mother hen does not break its own eggs. - Swahili Saying, Eastern Africa
6. He that has never traveled thinks that his mother is the only good cook in the world. - Kenya
7. Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. - African proverb
8. A child does not laugh at the ugliness of his mother. - African proverb
9. A mother cannot give birth to something bigger than herself. - African Proverb
10. Give birth to children and you will be pregnant with worries. - Namibian Proverb
African Women Quotes
1. If men swear that they want to harm you when you are asleep, you can go to sleep. If women say so, stay awake. - African proverb
2. A woman can hide her love for 40 years, but her disgust and anger not for one day. - Arab Proverb
3. If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman you educate a family (nation)." - Ghana
4. A home without a woman is like a barn without cattle. - African proverb
5. An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb. - African proverb
6. A woman is a flower in a garden; her husband is the fence around it. - Ghana
7. You are beautiful, but learn to work, for you cannot eat your beauty. - Congolese
8. Do not desire a woman with beautiful breasts, if you have no money. - South African
On the way to the river
African Womens' Poetry by Injete Chesoni
On the way to the river
We stop and catch up
On the latest village gossip
Two sisters, two girlfriends having a chat
We talk of Amadou
And how he has married wife number two
And of Seydou
And how he flew into a rage over
His wife Paige
And her horrendous cooking
He is now thinking about
kicking her out
All over cooking
We chuckle
Maybe we will give her a lesson or two
On how to prepare a meal for two
That’s sure to please and appease her man
Into letting her stay
If she wants to that is
We chat about Mama Lucy
And her cheating ways
Yesterday she was caught
In Chief Malay’s
Boat
In a compromising position
We whisper and blush
At the thought
Wishing we were as daring and free as she
But as for us
We are tied up by the chains of domesticity
And we must return to our chores
Of fetching water
And washing clothes
And all those other never-ending tasks
The daily life of a wife
Interrupted for a moment
As we live other people's lives
In our daily gossip on the way to the river
African Friendship Quotes
1. The friends of our friends are our friends. - Congo
2. A friend is someone you share the path with. - African proverb
3. To be without a friend is to be poor indeed. - Tanzania
4. Because friendship is pleasant, we partake of our friend's entertainment; not because we have not enough to eat in our own house. - African proverb
5. Hold a true friend with both hands. - African proverb
6. A friend is someone you share the path with. - African proverb
7. Show me your friend and I will show you your character. - African proverb
8. Sorrow is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends. - African proverb
9. Return to old watering holes for more than water; friends and dreams are there to meet you. - African proverb
10. Between true friends even water drunk together is sweet enough. - African proverb
11. A small house will hold a hundred friends. - African proverb
12. A close friend can become a close enemy. - African proverb
13. Bad friends will prevent you from having good friends. - Gabon
African Mother Quotes
1. The good mother knows what her children will eat. - Akan Proverb
2. Parents give birth to the body of their children, but not always to their characters. - Ganda Proverb
3. Only a mother would carry the child that bites. - Nigerian Proverb
4. Even though the baby monkey appears so ugly it's mother loves it anyway. - African proverb
5. The mother hen does not break its own eggs. - Swahili Saying, Eastern Africa
6. He that has never traveled thinks that his mother is the only good cook in the world. - Kenya
7. Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. - African proverb
8. A child does not laugh at the ugliness of his mother. - African proverb
9. A mother cannot give birth to something bigger than herself. - African Proverb
10. Give birth to children and you will be pregnant with worries. - Namibian Proverb
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African Women Quotes
1. If men swear that they want to harm you when you are asleep, you can go to sleep. If women say so, stay awake. - African proverb
2. A woman can hide her love for 40 years, but her disgust and anger not for one day. - Arab Proverb
3. If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman you educate a family (nation)." - Ghana
4. A home without a woman is like a barn without cattle. - African proverb
5. An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb. - African proverb
6. A woman is a flower in a garden; her husband is the fence around it. - Ghana
7. You are beautiful, but learn to work, for you cannot eat your beauty. - Congolese
8. Do not desire a woman with beautiful breasts, if you have no money. - South African
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Framed and Ready to Hang.
On the way to the river
On the way to the river
We stop and catch up
On the latest village gossip
Two sisters, two girlfriends having a chat
We talk of Amadou
And how he has married wife number two
And of Seydou
And how he flew into a rage over
His wife Paige
And her horrendous cooking
He is now thinking about
kicking her out
All over cooking
We chuckle
Maybe we will give her a lesson or two
On how to prepare a meal for two
That’s sure to please and appease her man
Into letting her stay
If she wants to that is
We chat about Mama Lucy
And her cheating ways
Yesterday she was caught
In Chief Malay’s
Boat
In a compromising position
We whisper and blush
At the thought
Wishing we were as daring and free as she
But as for us
We are tied up by the chains of domesticity
And we must return to our chores
Of fetching water
And washing clothes
And all those other never-ending tasks
The daily life of a wife
Interrupted for a moment
As we live other people's lives
In our daily gossip on the way to the river
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