KiKongo Proverbs-gctid26468

[Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé]

Yimbu mu kânda sînsu kia mfwîlu a kânda.

The poison within the community is a symtom the impending destruction of the community.

[Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé]

Sîmbi bia nsi mu kilômbo binikukinanga.

Societal leaders move and act through masses.

[Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé]

Wampâna nsèngo, kunkâmbi kwè ngâtu bwè isadila yo ko.

If you give me a hoe, don't tell me where or how to use it.

[Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé]

Lunited snakesla lwa nuni, nuni yândi wam' pâna lo

Birds have feathers because they were passed down to them by other birds.

[Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé]

Dia nguba ye nkwa-mèno.

Eat peanuts with one who has teeth.

[Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé]

Ma ku Mbôngi, ka matômbulawanga za ko.

The Community's political institution does not borrow foreign dialects to discuss its political matters or to educate its members.

[Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé]

Kânda diakôndwa n'toto, bilesi bilaukidi.

If the community does not own it's own land, the youth become lunatics.

[Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé]

Wagâmbula mbôngi, vo k'u zoba ko, kânda lwèngisi.

You create your own Mbôngi (public forum); If you do so without being a "lunatic", you are warning the community government and its leadership.

[Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé]

Kimbuta kia muntu, bônso kimuntu, ga mataba.

One's leadership, like one's personality, finds its roots in the child-hood.

[Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé]

Vo zèyi kânda, zèyi Nzâmbi.

If you know the community, you know The Creator.

[Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé]

Nga nzènza mûntu katûnga fu kia bwâla?

Could a strange person build a favorable social system of a village that is not his own?

[Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé]

Mfundu za boko ka zisompolongo zu ko.

Secrets of the Boko (the indigenous community problem solving political entity) are not discussed in a "borrowed" language [that betrays the boko/mbongi and its system]

[Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé]

N'kisi ukinsa kanda ufwiti toma zayakana

Medicine that treats or takes care of the community must be well understood.

[Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé]

Nsi yankulu; tambi biampa.

"Old country, fresh steps"
(old materials, new ideas)

[Dr. Afivi Adiro]

Kioto, Kioto, kia kanda.
 
(The Kioto is an inhilation inside the community)
 
Meals in the Kioto do not come by themselves, they are brought by it's members--a policy that feeds it's people or pretends to develop the nation on the ground of alien gifts is carcinogenic.  
 
Malembe!