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In the 1970s Julius Nyerere (then the President of Tanzania) used this proverb in a speech at the United Nations in New York. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Zaire) Ambassador to Great Britain used this same proverb in a talk to a group of Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) in London. The meaning was the same: In the Cold War between the (then) two great super powers -- the United States and Russia -- it was the poor Third World countries such as those in Africa who suffered and were victimized.
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[A]ntiquity is not by itself a deciding factor in acceptance of a proverb. New ideas and new items form new proverbs all the time. Ved Vatuk presented a proverb of recent origin in Hindi.
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This Zulu proverb reflects the idea that whoever does the most difficult job gets blamed for everything that goes wrong on the job. It does not matter if she or he is the actual culprit. So the teaching of this South African and Swaziland proverb is that the most pressure is on the leader(s).
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A proverb is considered appropriate only when the user is superior in status to his or her listeners. Like water, proverbs flow from a higher to a lower level and never vice versa. Proverbs are used by older men when they talk to younger persons or by socially superior persons to socially inferior persons. Also, they may be used among social equals. But even then, the person who uses them establishes for himself the status of a wise man. Or, if the user of proverbs happens to be a woman in mixed company, she is either older and ... of higher status than all the men in the group or at least of equal age and status as the men. in the case of husband and wife, a wife could, and often does, use proverbs aimed at her husband only if such proverbs are "female proverbs", about which more will be said later.
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