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Chapter I-5:  The Way of a Stranger and How a Stranger Should Live in Dagbon

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How Dagbamba behave toward strangerrs; being a stranger and traveling; the benefits of traveling; bad things that can happen to strangers; how a stranger should behave with the people



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Contents outline and links by paragraph

Introduction

Traveling and death; traveling and life

How being a stranger is bad

How strangers are good

How a stranger should live with the townspeople

Conclusion



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Proverbs and Sayings

A child who travels is wiser than the father.

A person who climbs a tree will see something that a person who is sitting down will never see.

If you want to watch the way of death, you should travel and leave your room and not put someone to stay in your room.

God takes one town's prince and turns him to be another town's slave.

They only show the bad ways of a town; they don't show the bad people of a town.

To be a stranger is like the night.

To be a stranger, you are in darkness.

A tall stranger follows a short townsperson.

“Had I known“ is always at last.

A person will not leave his character.

What can you give a person and he will leave his character and not show it to you?

A stranger is a stranger, but character is not a stranger.

“Get and taste”:  that is when you will know whether you will be satisfied.

Good character can give you something big.

They say you cannot do anything; nothing has ever come to you.

If you were dancing a dance in your town, and you get to another town and they are dancing another dance, you should leave your town's dance and dance their dance.


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