Linguafrika#PATIENCE
Hankuri ya fi dukiya.
Translation: Patience is greater than wealth.
Meaning: Patience yields more than gold can buy — what is built slowly endures longest.
Linguafrika#WISDOM
Ìwà lẹ̀wà.
Translation: Character is beauty.
Meaning: Outward beauty fades; the shape of a person’s character is what endures.
Linguafrika#TIME
Haraka haraka haina baraka.
Translation: Hurrying brings no blessing.
Meaning: Rushed work skips the wisdom that careful work earns.
Linguafrika#COEXISTENCE
Egbe bere ugo bere.
Translation: Let the kite and the eagle both perch.
Meaning: Let each have its place; coexistence holds the world together.
Linguafrika#COMMUNITY
Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu.
Translation: A person is a person through others.
Meaning: Ubuntu — we become ourselves only through community.
Linguafrika#PATIENCE
Munyal defan haaƴre.
Translation: Patience cooks the rock.
Meaning: What looks impossible yields to patient, steady effort.