Tshi Proverbs

Tshi proverbs carry Akan-style wisdom from Ghana’s old Gold Coast, where gold trade and powerful forest kingdoms shaped daily life. They prize community, clever speech, hard work, and respect for elders.

When a child knows how to wash his hands well, he eats with the elders. (Tshi Proverb)
When a fool is told a proverb, it has to be explained to him. View proverb
Tshi Proverb
‘hit me but I must not hit you' is no game at all. View proverb
Tshi Proverb
A tree that has grown bent for thirty years cannot be straightened in one year. View proverb
Tshi Proverb
Although the horse is stupid, it does not follow that the rider is stupid. View proverb
Tshi Proverb
If a man is unhappy, his conduct is the cause. View proverb
Tshi Proverb
If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired. View proverb
Tshi Proverb
If there had been no poverty in europe, then the white man would not have come and spread his clothes in africa. View proverb
Tshi Proverb
If they are uttering insults and don't mean you, and yet you reply, you have condemned yourself. View proverb
Tshi Proverb
If you are merciful to the antelope, you go to bed hungry. View proverb
Tshi Proverb
If you go to a rat's village and it is eating palm nuts, you eat some too. (Tshi Proverb)
If you have no time to take care of your sickness, you get time to die. View proverb
Tshi Proverb
In order to find evildoers, every human being is given a name. View proverb
Tshi Proverb
It is because of man we wear swords. View proverb
Tshi Proverb
No one roasts rotten meat and puts it in the mouth of their friend and then says ‘you mouth stinks.' View proverb
Tshi Proverb
Perhaps you will eat a whole elephant and nothing gets stuck in your throat, and then you eat a fish and a bone gets stuck in your throat. View proverb
Tshi Proverb
The animal that is coming to be killed does not hear the hunter cough. View proverb
Tshi Proverb
The one who is looking for a wife doesn't speak contemptuously of women. View proverb
Tshi Proverb
The place where you are happy is better than the place you were born. View proverb
Tshi Proverb
At someone's funeral we weep for our own mothers and fathers. View proverb
Tshi Proverb
When a yam doesn't grow well, we don't blame it; it is because of the soil. (Tshi Proverb)
If someone hates you, don't let her find you hateful. View proverb
Tshi Proverb
No matter how generous you are, you don't give your wife away. View proverb
Tshi Proverb