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Proverb from Uganda

Luganda

Oguli omwa muno tegugoba ngo.

“The stick which is at your friend’s house will not drive away the leopard.”

Meaning

Help that is far away is no use in a crisis. Roscoe: “A stick at a distance is of no use in an emergency.”

Source

John Roscoe, The Baganda: An Account of Their Native Customs and Beliefs (London: Macmillan, 1911), p. 485, on archive.org

Spelled as Roscoe prints it, in the Luganda spelling of 1911.

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