Mate Masie: Understanding
Mate Masie means 'what I hear, I keep.' True wisdom involves not just hearing but understanding, remembering, and applying what is learned.
Mate Masie means 'what I hear, I keep.' True wisdom involves not just hearing but understanding, remembering, and applying what is learned.
What I hear, I keep in my heart. Wisdom that is not remembered is wisdom lost.
Adinkra Wisdom
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- What African wisdom says about what to say and what to leave unsaid
Mate masie means "what I hear, I keep" — keep in the sense of understanding and remembering, and the Adinkra symbol is glossed as prudence. The phrase leans two ways at once: what you have truly understood is also what you are now responsible for repeating, or not.