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    BBC News Africa‏Verified account @BBCAfrica Jan 5

    Today’s African #proverb: All lizards crawl on their belly but you don’t know which one is aching. A Krio proverb from Sierra Leone sent by Alim Tee in the UK What do you think it means? Please use the form on this page to send us your African proverb: http://bbc.in/2AuMoYB pic.twitter.com/o89WK5CBM6

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    • hajar mufti Ceesay Men Ezekia Nawa  webster AfricanNetwork C.T. Unonu 𝓑𝓪𝔂 Pozzy Zalira Nzunga Mariaam Bhatti Abba Gana
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      1. Shehu Liman Abdullahi‏ @OgbeniShehu Jan 5
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @tayos02 "It's takes a person with keen observation to know which frog is limping" Hausa Proverb. @BBCAfrica @Pastoralist1

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      1. Bode Badiru‏ @bodebadru Jan 5
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        you can't fathom what people harbour in their minds by merely studying their countenances.

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      1. Dr Samuel Daso‏ @DrDaso Jan 5
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        This is a Yoruba proverb from Nigeria.Though the krios are Yoruba speaking tribe of Sierra Leone. Nevertheless the source is Yoruba not Krio

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      1. Suleiman Abdul Gafar‏ @hurptimistic95 Jan 5
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        It means everything appears normal but not all of them are normal in the real sense..... We can also say "it is not all that glitters that are gold"

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      1. robimaaz‏ @abiodunadelu Jan 5
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        #YorubaProverbs too..."Gbogbo aláńgbá ló danú dé ilè,a ò mo èyí tí inú ńrun"...No one precisely can say what is happening to anyone without finding out.. @yoruba_proverbs ....

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      1. Bode Badiru‏ @bodebadru Jan 5
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        it's a Yoruba proverb as well.

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      1. Tabuko Emmanuel‏ @swaagee Jan 5
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Not all that glitters is gold!

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      1. Nour Rodríguez‏ @Nourss3 Jan 5
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        You can't know the history people

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      1. saeed Muhammed lawan‏ @saeedMuhammadl2 Jan 5
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        You can't know what people are feeling

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      1. EL GUNNER CHARLES OMUSUGU.‏ @omusugu_charles Jan 5
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        it means that don't judge some thing by its outside looks, #omusugu_charles @kampala uganda.

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      1. mary kelechi‏ @marykellyx Jan 5
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        An Igbo proverb also

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      1. Seyi Olusore‏ @ShedamsFitness Jan 5
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        It means things/people might not look good on the inside the way they appear on the outside😉

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      2. Emma Adu-Gyamfi‏ @iam_adugyamfi Jan 5
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Why do u often represent African proverbs with this picture?

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      3. charles owusu kumi‏ @kumiofficial Jan 6
        Replying to @iam_adugyamfi @BBCAfrica

        Because that is an African reality

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      4. Emma Adu-Gyamfi‏ @iam_adugyamfi Jan 6
        Replying to @kumiofficial @BBCAfrica

        Where African reality means?

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      2. Black guy‏ @KeithVere2 Jan 6
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot-Zim proverb

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      3. Black guy‏ @KeithVere2 Jan 6
        Replying to @KeithVere2 @BBCAfrica

        The beggar may change places but the lash goes on

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      1. stella shea butter  🤣‏ @stella_bip Jan 6
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Do not judge a book by its cover

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      1. Tafadzwa Jenami‏ @tafadzwa_jenami Jan 6
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        We all have our issues even the rich have problems too just they don't show it to everyone

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