The one who fetches the water is the one who is likely to break the pot.
Ga (Ghana) Proverb
~ African Proverbs
Swallow saliva before you cross a one-log bridge.
Ngoni (Tanzania, Mozambique) Proverb
~ African Proverbs
How easy it is to defeat people who do not kindle fire for themselves.
Tugen (Kenya) Proverb
~ African Proverbs
The dog does not worry when the chicken runs over to the bones.
Ewe-mina (Benin, Ghana, and Togo) Proverb
~ African Proverbs
The camel does not see the bend in its neck.
Arabic (Libya) Proverb
~ African Proverbs
The one who eats has tasted the hardship of labor.
Tembo (Democratic Republic of Congo)
~ African Proverbs
The person who has a light knee can survive longer.
Toposa (Sudan)
~ African Proverbs
The person who has eaten and satisfied himself or herself does not care for the one who is hungry.
Matengo (Tanzania) Proverb
~ African Proverbs
Until the lion has his or her own storyteller, the hunter will always have the best part of the story.
Ewe-mina (Benin, Ghana, and Togo)
~ African Proverbs
An eye that you treat is the one that turns against you.
Luo (Kenya, Tanzania)
~ African Proverbs
If you refuse the elders advice you will walk the whole day.
Ngoreme (Tanzania), Kuria (Kenya, Tanzania)
~ African Proverbs
Go in that direction” does not mean that you go. To go means, “let’s go together!
Sena (Mozambique) Proverb
~ African Proverbs
What is in the stomach carries what is in the head.
Bukusu (Kenya) Proverb
~ African Proverbs
A fish is in water but does not know the importance of water.
Ewe (Ghana, Benin, Nigeria and Togo) Proverb
~ African Proverbs
A child or youth who does not listen to an elder’s advice gets his or her leg broken.
Nyanja (Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia) and Chewa (Malawi) and Bemba (Zambia) Proverb
~ African Proverbs
The (word) of a friend makes you cry; the (word) of an enemy makes you laugh.
Tuareg (Algeria, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger)
~ African Proverbs
The pants of today are better than the breeches of tomorrow.
Moore (Burkina Faso)
~ African Proverbs
A chicken that keeps scratching the dung-hill will soon find the mother’s thigh bones.
Ewe (Ghana, Benin, Nigeria and Togo) Proverb
~ African Proverbs
When God cooks, you don't see smoke.
Kaonde (Zambia) Proverb
~ African Proverbs
Like ants, eat little and carry the rest back to your home.
Bembe (Democratic Republic of the Congo – DRC, Tanzania) Proverb
~ African Proverbs
It [a bug] grows up in dry wood, and yet it comes to maturity.
Gikuyu (Kenya) Proverb
~ African Proverbs
Only a wise person can solve a difficult problem.
Akan (Ghana) Proverb
~ African Proverbs
A tree is known by its fruit.
Zulu (South Africa, Swaziland) Proverb
~ African Proverbs
A deaf ear is followed by death and an ear that listens is followed by blessings.
Samburu (Kenya) Proverb
~ African Proverbs
I pointed out to you the stars (the moon) and all you saw was the tip of my finger.
Sukuma (Tanzania)
~ African Proverbs
The water pot presses upon the small circular pad.
Acholi (Uganda) Proverb
~ African Proverbs
If you do not listen to good advice, you will be embarrassed in public.
Oshiwambo (Namibia)
~ African Proverbs
Akhenaton (or Akhenaten) was the tenth pharaoh of Egypt's
eighteenth dynasty (c.1352-1336 BCE).
Son of Amenhotep III and the chief queen, Tiya, Akhenaton
succeeded to the throne as Amenhotep IV and took a throne
name meaning "the sun's ultimate perfection, unique one
of the sun." He created a new capital at Amarna.
He is often referred to as the "heretic pharaoh," due
to his abandonment of all of the traditional Egyptian gods
except for Aten, the god associated with the disc of the
sun who had been growing in importance and popularity for at
least a couple of generations prior to the reign of Akhenaten.
It was in honour of this god that the pharaoh changed his name.
(1352-1336 BCE)
To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
~ Confucius
To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that
increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
~ Akhenaton
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
~ Socrates
