Introduction -- The Eue-speaking peoples -- The virtues of "prudence" and "sociability" in Eue folk proverbs -- 'Grafting' Israel's 'shoots'-sayings from Proverbs 25-29 on to the African Ghanaian Eve tree of life-Eve folk proverbs
Summary
Proverbs and the African Tree of Life is Dorothy BEA Akoto-Abutiate's argument that African folk sayings must be seen as the full-blown tree on to which the Biblical Proverbs can be "grafted" (that is, taught), be learned, understood and appropriated in Africa
