"We are together like fish in water." - Senegalese Proverb

“We are together like fish in water.”

- Senegaleseunity

Meaning

The community is our natural environment; separation is unnatural.

Wolof teranga (hospitality) culture sees community as the natural state of human existence. Isolation is like a fish out of water.

Origin

Senegalese

Language

Wolof

“A man who eats alone dies alone.”

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“A single tree cannot make a forest.”

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