Mon, 28 Nov 2016 18:54:29 +0000 Proverbs radio programme on Millennium Radio, 90.5 fm facilitates sharing of informative, educative and interesting local language proverbs which promote our cultural values. Every Saturday from 15:00hurs to 16:00hours, Millennium Radio airs a live phone-in proverbs programme from one of the more than 73 ethnic tribes. And the other Saturday’s proverb aired on the stated radio station was ‘Kumbire adanka nawo’, a Cichewa proverb from Eastern province: The word ‘kumbire’ literary means ‘dig for me’; ‘adanka nawo’ means ‘went with them’. This proverb reminds youths, young ladies and young men; including other elderly people of the importance to ask our respective parents or other people about what they (elderly people) know which is helpful for the current and future generations. Failure to do so might mean that when elderly people die, they will go with everything they knew without leaving such for the benefit of current and future generations. […]
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