The elephant dies, but his tusks remain.
More African Proverbs:
You cannot send a goat to rescue a lamb from a loin's attack.African
No matter how well tamed a lion, it will one day go back to the bush.
African
If you've never been to a pit latrine, you will never know that cockroach is a chief.
African
One can see it but must not say, when the master of a house passes excreta in a pot.
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It's the big birds that teach the young ones to flight.
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A man gets to the land of spirits when he passes seven rivers, seven forests and seven hills.
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