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mũceera na mũkũndũ akũndũkaga taguo

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Kikuyu

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Proverb

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mũceera na mũkũndũ akũndũkaga taguo

  1. he who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl like a wolf[2] (lit. one who walks with a scoundrel turns bad like him)

References

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  1. ^ Ng'ang'a, Philip M. (1996). Mũũgĩ nĩ Mũtaare, p. 143. Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers. →ISBN
  2. ^ Barra, G. (1960). 1,000 Kikuyu proverbs: with translations and English equivalents, p. 52. London: Macmillan.