Levi has gobbled down his dinner and is looking questioningly up at Mamadou. Mamadou answers Levi's silent "Please sir, I want some more" by jokingly shouting, "Levi! You're never full!"
Neene turns to me and says, "Bono wii, mbotu kuli."
It takes awhile, but I eventually learn "Bono wii, mbotu kuli" is a proverb that means something like, "The wolf (or was it hyena? I don't remember) said the leopard (or a large, spotted cat of some sort) eats too much." Neene said it because Mamadou, like Levi, is never full.
What I have not figured out is whether this is a proverb you use anytime someone is being a hypocrite, or only in those instances someone is being a hypocrite about food.
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