Lamba Proverbs

Lamba Proverbs distill Bantu wisdom from Zambia’s Copperbelt, where farming villages met the copper‑mining frontier. They prize kinship, hard work, and harmony with land and ancestors.

Mother carry me, and I tomorrow will carry you. (Lamba Proverb)
People get to know one another when traveling. View proverb
Lamba Proverb
Respect a little child, and let it respect you. View proverb
Lamba Proverb
The insolence of shortness is to stretch itself big. View proverb
Lamba Proverb
The judge also dies. View proverb
Lamba Proverb
There is no return, worse luck; for could I return, I would foresee what has come into the country. View proverb
Lamba Proverb
When there is on a red-hot hoe, it is not grasped. View proverb
Lamba Proverb
Where there is a friend, one does not have to call, he will come of his own accord. View proverb
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A bone does not bring itself, it is people that bring it. View proverb
Lamba Proverb
A case is not to be decided from one mouth. View proverb
Lamba Proverb
A child one does not instruct on return, one instructs him when going. (Lamba Proverb)
A redeemer of people is a walker with people. View proverb
Lamba Proverb
A stick one bends while it is still green. View proverb
Lamba Proverb
Adjoining houses always burn. View proverb
Lamba Proverb
Chieftanship is not infectious. View proverb
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Cunning comes to an end, what remains is folly. View proverb
Lamba Proverb
Even if we eat, earth will eventually enter our mouth. View proverb
Lamba Proverb
Even if you are cunning, you will not tie water up in a bale of grass. View proverb
Lamba Proverb
He was entrapped by the evening, it has cost him his marriage. View proverb
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Hunger has no friend. View proverb
Lamba Proverb
It is the grass that knows where the snake goes. (Lamba Proverb)
Just one by one white hairs have come, and thus have they grown. View proverb
Lamba Proverb
Even if your bee-hive has no honey in it, you shouldn't break it up. View proverb
Lamba Proverb
One doesn't follow a wild beast into its lair. View proverb
Lamba Proverb
Your friend, one doesn't stare at his forehead, one stares at his stomach. View proverb
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