A Malian scholar on hospitality
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Treat guests generously; departing
they’ll praise the efforts you’ve made.
Generosity isn’t about fancy food
or fussing with meat and seasoning.
Generosity is smiling when you see someone;
nothing good comes of an unsmiling host.
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Treat guests generously; departing
they’ll praise the efforts you’ve made.
Generosity isn’t about fancy food
or fussing with meat and seasoning.
Generosity is smiling when you see someone;
nothing good comes of an unsmiling host.
From a 73-line advice poem from the Djenné Manuscript Library (pictured, with the manuscripts' digitizers, Djenné and Timbuku Endangered Archives teams)
*al-Ḥasan only has one S😖
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