Translation:
Poverty is a good knife for sharpening the ‘mũro’[mũro is a shrt-sharpened stick used to dig up crops like potatoes]
Postproverbial:
Thĩna nĩ rũhiu rwa gũicũhia, mũthĩni
Translation:
Poverty is the knife for sharpening the poor
Comments:
In p1, the word sharpening is used literally for making the ‘mũro’ efficient while in p2, sharpening is metaphorical motivation or imparting knowledge and reasoning on the needy. In a nutshell, the postproverbial posits that poverty is the most effective teacher
Language - Region:
gikuyu-kenya
Label:
poverty
knife
sharpen