African Proverb: If you cut your chains, you free yourself. If you cut your roots, you die
Metaphorically speaking in this proverb, a slave is like a puppet with always strings in the hands of its master. These strings that control a slave are nothing else but mainly fear and lies.
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Every slave is being held down by the chains of fear or lies or both from the master. Break away from lies and fear is to be freedom indeed.
For the second part of the proverb speaks of what holds you up hope. Hope is what keeps you alive. Any day you stop hoping you start dying. Life exist where there is hope.
'Root' itself can also be understood as speaking of origin or heritage. Therefore, Against that backdrop, for one to be without roots is to be nonexistent! Many people are ashamed of their roots. But if you are ashamed of your roots , it is as stupid as being arrogant about it.
The reason is because
So Be proud of your heritage.
Country's Proverb: #Uganda
Our roots are what keep us tied to the core of our being, we should never loose sight of that.
There is always a reason for the roots we stem from, we can only enjoy it when we embrace it.
No matter what, we should not be ashamed of the root we come from cause we do not choose the root ourselves and moreover, no body knows tomorrow. Nice one.
On point
Am proud of my root.
Thats good
Root is what hold the tree. Once the root is gone, the tree is dead. Nice proverb
True
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