If one is careless with one's property one is liable to lose it. Àgbà (elder) should not be taken literally here; the proverb plays on the syllable gbà (take from), the sense being that what-takes (construed here as a-gbà) only takes what is unprotected.
If one is careless with one's property one is liable to lose it. Agba (elder) should not be taken literally here; the proverb plays on the syllable gba (take from), the sense being that what-takes (construed here as a-gba) only takes what is unprotected.