🗣️ Ghana: “Another person is also a person”

Akan (Twi) proverb · Africa

Onipa bi nso ne onipa.

onipa bi nso ne onipa

“Another person is also a person”

Every other human being is fully a person too — the Akan foundation of empathy, the root of ubuntu.

About this proverb

This saying belongs to the oral tradition of Ghana, a country in Africa. Read the full collection of Ghana proverbs, or explore the Proverbs of the World index.

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