When the head of the family dies, that family breaks up.
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To a seamen of Kwale, death by water is common experience.Swahili
A guine- fowl not lay eggs on strange places.
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what is not eaten by a man, let the devil eat it.
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A cow is not oppressed by its own hump.
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There is weeping when separated, there is quarreling when together.
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If the palmwine tapper is praised, he dilutes the palm-wine with water.
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