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Topics: African Proverbs: Famous African Proverbs & Sayings AS-F
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As you bring up a child, so he will be.
Source: Swahili
As you do for your ancestors, your children will do for you.
Source: African
Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.
Source: African
Because he lost his reputation, he lost a kingdom.
Source: Ethiopian
Before shooting, one must aim.
Source: African
Being a leader is like a borrowed garment.
Source: Ugandan
Being a small chief is better than being second in command.
Source: Ugandan
Between true friends even water drunk together is sweet enough.
Source: African
Brothers love each other when they are equally rich.
Source: African
By crawling, a child learns to stand.
Source: West African
Cheekiness does not make a good leader.
Source: Ugandan
Children will hate all those who give all things to them.
Source: African
Coffee and love taste best when hot.
Source: Ethiopian
Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole.
Source: African
Do not be a leader and use it to your own advantage.
Source: Ugandan
Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle.
Source: African
Do not call to a dog with a whip in your hand.
Source: African
Do not make the dress before the child is born.
Source: Tanzanian
Do not show wisdom, where there is wisdom.
Source: Kenyan
Do not treat your loved one like a swinging door: you are fond of it but you push it back and forth.
Source: Madagascan
Don't be so much in love that you can't tell when it's raining.
Source: Malagasy
Don't look into the eyes of your lover, or you will see what he has told many women before.
Source: African
Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.
Source: African
Don't set sail on someone else's star.
Source: African
Don't try to make someone hate the person he loves, for he will still go on loving, but he will hate you.
Source: Senegalese
Elders choose their words.
Source: Kenyan
Even as the archer loves the arrow that flies, so too he loves the bow that remains constant in his hands.
Source: Nigerian
Even the fiercest leader in the world is overcome by sleep.
Source: Malawian
Even the king needs to be taught.
Source: Somali
Even the mightest eagle comes down to the tree tops to rest.
Source: African
Everybody loves a fool, but nobody wants him for a son.
Source: Ivorian
For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
Source: African
From the word of an elder is derived a bone.
Source: Rwandan and Rundian
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