Webcentive Proverbs

Proverb from Tanzania

Swahili

Haraka, haraka, haina mbaraka.

“Haste, haste, has no blessing.”

Meaning

Rushing brings no good. Do things carefully and in good time.

Source

W. E. Taylor, African Aphorisms; or, Saws from Swahili-land (London: SPCK, 1891), no. 86, p. 16, on archive.org

Taylor notes that mbaraka is the Zanzibar form of baraka (blessing), and also records an older form, “Kakakaka haina baraka.”

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