 not to be too lavish in their gifts, to consume their food themselves before visitors arrive and they are deprived of the greater share of it, and not to grant undue hospitality without the prospect  Yoruba Proverbs - Page 22by Oyekan Owomoyela - 2005 - 502 pagesLimited preview - About this book
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...body of whakalauki, one finds quite a number of distinctly anti-hospitable sayings, which recommend people not to be too lavish in their gifts, to consume...not to grant undue hospitality without the prospect of some equivalent in return. (This point never seems to be stressed, and indeed is not often mentioned... | |
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