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African proverbs

A thorn can be removed by another thorn.Meaning: Atfer a break-up, a woman can be replaced by another woman. A man can be replaced by another man.
— African proverbs man
Meaning: Atfer a break-up, a woman can be replaced by another woman. A man can be replaced by another man.
— African proverbs man
Don’t set sail using someone else’s star.Meaning: Avoid copying someone else. Just because someone has been successful in what he/she does does not warrant that you will also be successful at the same thing. Answers Africa proverbs and meanings
— African proverbs success
Meaning: Avoid copying someone else. Just because someone has been successful in what he/she does does not warrant that you will also be successful at the same thing. Answers Africa proverbs and meanings
— African proverbs success
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesnt matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better start running.
— African proverbs death
East African proverb, The man who hangs around a beautiful girl without proposing to her, ends up fetching water for guests at her wedding.You need to act fast. There are somethings that you have to say right on time.
— African proverbs time
To be praised is to be lost. - Kikuyu, Kenya
— African Proverbs ya
The orphan does not rejoice after a heavy breakfast. - Cape Coast, Ghana
— African Proverbs
You are sitting in peace (unharmed): as the nose of a cow that feeds among thorntrees and shows no scars. Luganda, Uganda
— African Proverbs peace
The pillar of the world is hope. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
— African Proverbs hope
When cutting, look at the age of the machete. - Fulfulde, Nigeria
— African Proverbs age
We should talk while we are still alive. - Kalenjin (Kenya)
— African Proverbs ya
The eye is a coward. - Kalenjin (Kenya)
— African Proverbs war
There is no bad patience. - (Knappert, p. 46, Swahili).
— African Proverbs patience
The rainmaker who doesnt know what hes doing will be found out by the lack of clouds. Luganda, Uganda
— African Proverbs rain
Goodness gets a seat. - Igala, Nigeria. (Pachocinski, p. 224; explanation: good people will be shown favors and will live longer).
— African Proverbs people
Gods rain falls even on the . - Fipa, Tanzania
— African Proverbs god
He flees from the roaring lion to the crouching lion. Sechuana
— African Proverbs
By coming and going, a bird weaves its nest. Ashanti, Ghana
— African Proverbs
Before the chicken carefully observe the character of your guest. Mandingo proverb
— African Proverbs man
If there is cause to someone, the cause to love has just begun. - Wolof proverb, Senegal
— African Proverbs love
If one is roasting two potatoes, one of them is bound to get charred. - Kikuyu, Kenya.
— African Proverbs ya
If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong.
— African Proverbs you
Instruction in youth is like engraving in stones. Berber, North Africa
— African Proverbs youth
It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal
— African Proverbs
One person is thin porridge or gruel; two or three people are a handful of stiff cooked corn meal. - Kuria, Kenya/Tanzania and Ngoreme, Tanzania
— African Proverbs people
Rising early makes the road short. - Wolof proverb, Senegal
— African Proverbs sin
The best of mankind is a farmer; the best food is fruit. - Ethiopia
— African Proverbs food
Dogs do not actually prefer bones to meat,it is just that no one ever gives them meat. Akan proverb, West Africa
— African Proverbs dogs
Do not tell the man carrying you that he stinks. Sierra Leone
— African Proverbs man
Do not follow a person who is running a way. - Kalenjin (Kenya)
— African Proverbs ya
A donkey knows no gratitude. - (Knappert, p. 138, Swahili)
— African Proverbs gratitude
A stranger does not skin a sheep that is paid as a fine at a chiefs court. - Cape Coast, Ghana
— African Proverbs anger
A tree not taller than an ant cannot shade you. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
— African Proverbs you
Be on the alert, like the red ant that moves with its claws wide open. Uganda
— African Proverbs law
Even a friend can not rescue one from old age. - Kalenjin (Kenya)
— African Proverbs ya
The young cant teach traditions to the old. - Yoruba proverb
— African Proverbs you
You suffer from smoke produced by the firewood you fetched yourself. Luhya, Kenya
— African Proverbs self
A hyena cannot smell its own stench. - Kalenjin (Kenya)
— African Proverbs ya
A mans wealth may be superior to him. Cameroon
— African Proverbs man
The elephant never gets tired of carrying its tusks. Vai, Liberia
— African Proverbs
The crows, the idle person grumbles. - Yoruba, Nigeria
— African Proverbs person

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