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Chapter I-7:  How Dagbamba Send Messengers

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How Dagbamba send messengers to greet others; types of people who are messengers; how a messenger uses sense



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Relevance of the talk of messengers

Example:  getting a wife

Example:  chiefs

Example:  princes

The respect of a messenger

Examples:  how Alhaji Ibrahim is sent as a messenger

Example:  sending your wife to a funeral houses

Some vicissitudes of sending different people

Funeral houses

How messengers can bring information back to the sender

Trading and borrowing

The importance of messengers in Dagbon



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Proverbs and Sayings

If you are going to send someone to do some work for you, you should send the one with sense and not the one who can walk.

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

The ladder you climb to look at something far away, that is the same ladder you have to use to come down.

Collect my child, collect my work.

“You fall and I fall”:  that is what makes the playing of the dogs nice.

If somebody doesn't know you, he won't do you any bad; it is the one who knows you who does you bad.

They are asking of you.

However useless or weak a work is, a goat will be afraid of it.


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