When the hen steps on the feet of her chicken, she does not mean to kill them.
More Akan Proverbs:
You are the subject of he whose handcuffs you wear.
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The one who asks questions doesn't lose his way.
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The good mother knows what her children will eat.
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Although the snake does not fly, it has caught the hornbill, whose home is in the sky.
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