A Study of Parallel Proverbs in Akan (Twi) and Kiswahili
Dr. Ọbádélé Kambon and Dr. Josephine Dzahene-Quarshie
LAG 2015 ||| TUESDAY, JULY 28, 2015 ||| 8:30AM
KNUST ||| COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

TwiSwahili or KiswaTwili: A Study of Parallel Proverbs in Akan (Twi) and Kiswahili
Abstract
In Akan and Kiswahili, there are several proverbs that express the same underlying idea, oftentimes in the exact same or similar ways. Examples of these include:
1. a. Kikulacho kinguoni mwako
That which eats you (up) is in your clothing
b. Aboa bi bɛkawo a, naɛfiri wo ntoma mu
If a bug will bite you, it’s from in your cloth
2. a. Chakula chema hakihitaji kawa
Good food needs no coverlet against the flies.
b. Adepa tɔn ne ho
A good thing sells itself.
c. Nkyene nkamfo ne ho.
Salt does not praise itself.
There are several possible reasons why these parallel proverbs exist. In one line of thinking, the similarities may be due to contact phenomena such as shared cultural and/or historical experiences. Another perspective may be due to the demonstrably genetic relationship between Akan and Kiswahili languages. In this study, however, we will examine these proverbs in parallel or near-parallel and demonstrate that regardless of the facts of the two aforementioned lines of inquiry, these proverbs attest to a shared African worldview.

According to Brittanica (peer-reviewed) and vetted encyclopedia, the Portuguese a European group encountered Africans in the 14th century and adopted the terms 'Black man' and 'Land of Black men' from Africans in the Northern African region. From that point, Europeans have used it ever since in their maps.

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Wikipedia states,

"Archaeological evidence has suggested that the Tasian and Badarian Nile Valley sites were a peripheral network of earlier African cultures that featured the movement of Badarian, Saharan, Nubian, and Nilotic populations.[6] Bruce Williams, Egyptologist, has stated "The Tasian Period is significantly related to the Neolithic of Sudanese-Saharan tradition as found just north of Khartoum and near Dongola in Sudan".[7]

Tasians were shown to have dental traits similar to Sub-Saharan Africans and some also to North Africans. According to the researchers, it is possible that the population may have been a mix of both groups, but the sample size was concluded to be to small to make definitive statements.[8]

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In peer-reviewed data not shared in imperialist-biased media about the crania series of pre-dynastic Egyptians having greater affinity with tropical Africans, Biological anthropologists state,

"The results are not supportive of European agriculturalists colonizing el-Badari in the early- to mid-Holocene. The Badarian series evinces greater phenetic affinity with the tropical African comparative groups and, notably, the east African Teita" (Keita, 2000: ).

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