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African Proverbs: Famous African Proverbs & Sayings
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To agree to have dialogue is the beginning of
a peaceful resolution.
Source: Somali
To be able to love other people you must be able to love yourself.
Source: African
To lead is not to run roughshod over people.
Source: Kenyan
To love someone who does not love you, is like shaking a tree
to make the dew drops fall.
Source: Congolese
To love that one who never loves you is like rain falling in
the forest.
Source: African
To love the king is not bad, but a king who loves you is better.
Source: Wolof
To try and to fail is not laziness.
Source: African
Too large a morsel chokes the child.
Source: Mauritanian
Train a child the way he should go and make sure you also go
the same way.
Source: African
True love means what's mine is yours.
Source: African
Two birds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down
and carried it off.
Source: African
Two leaders do not fight in one house.
Source: Ugandan
We desire to bequest two things to our children Source: Source: the first
one is roots; the other one is wings.
Source: Sudanese
We start as fools and become wise through experience.
Source: African
What the child says, he has heard at home.
Source: Nigerian
What you cannot see during the day, you will not see at night.
Source: African
What you help a child to love can be more important than what
you help him to learn.
Source: African
When a child is asleep a mother's attention is on the child's
stomach.
Source: African
When a child knows how to wash his hands well, he eats with
the elders.
Source: Tshi
When a fool is cursed, he thinks he is being praised.
Source: African
When a four-year child is still crawling instead of walking
it is time to cry out.
Source: African
When a king has good counselors, his reign is peaceful.
Source: Ashanti
When a leader changes mood, followers change the place of their
abode.
Source: Ugandan
When a man curses his own child it is a terrible thing.
Source: African
When a man says yes, his chi (personal god) says yes also.
Source: African
When a needle falls into a deep well, many people will look
into the well, but few will be ready to go down after it.
Source: African
When a woman has ten children, there is nothing that happens
in the night that she does not know about.
Source: Nigerian
When an only kolanut is presented with love, it carries with
it more value than might otherwise be associated with a whole
pod of several kolanuts.
Source: Nigerian
When elephant steps on a trap, no more trap.
Source: African
When elephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.
Source: African
When God cooks, you don't see smoke.
Source: African
When one is in love, a cliff becomes a meadow.
Source: Ethiopian
When the big tree falls, the goat eats its leaves.
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