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Learn African wisdom with Golden Proverbs!<\/strong><\/p>\n The one who fetches the water is the one who is likely to break the pot.<\/strong> Swallow saliva before you cross a one-log bridge.<\/strong> How easy it is to defeat people who do not kindle fire for themselves.<\/strong> The dog does not worry when the chicken runs over to the bones.<\/strong> The camel does not see the bend in its neck.<\/strong> The one who eats has tasted the hardship of labor.<\/strong> The person who has a light knee can survive longer.<\/strong> The person who has eaten and satisfied himself or herself does not care for the one who is hungry.<\/strong> Until the lion has his or her own storyteller, the hunter will always have the best part of the story.<\/strong> An eye that you treat is the one that turns against you.<\/strong> If you refuse the elders advice you will walk the whole day.<\/strong> Go in that direction\u201d does not mean that you go. To go means, \u201clet\u2019s go together!<\/strong> What is in the stomach carries what is in the head.<\/strong> A fish is in water but does not know the importance of water.<\/strong> oes not listen to an elder\u2019s advice gets his or her leg broken.<\/strong> The (word) of a friend makes you cry; the (word) of an enemy makes you laugh.<\/strong> The pants of today are better than the breeches of tomorrow.<\/strong> A chicken that keeps scratching the dung-hill will soon find the mother\u2019s thigh bones.<\/strong> When God cooks, you don’t see smoke.<\/strong> Like ants, eat little and carry the rest back to your home.<\/strong> It [a bug] grows up in dry wood, and yet it comes to maturity.<\/strong> Only a wise person can solve a difficult problem.<\/strong> A tree is known by its fruit.<\/strong> A deaf ear is followed by death and an ear that listens is followed by blessings.<\/strong> I pointed out to you the stars (the moon) and all you saw was the tip of my finger.<\/strong> The water pot presses upon the small circular pad.<\/strong> If you do not listen to good advice, you will be embarrassed in public.<\/strong> Drive peace my colleagues.<\/strong> Unity is strength.<\/strong> The thorn in your foot is temporarily appeased, but it is still in.<\/strong> Suffering is prior to attaining success or perfection.<\/strong> The eyes of the trapper are as subject to reddening as those of the small animal (that he pursues).<\/strong> Slowly, slowly, porridge goes into the gourd.<\/strong> The chief’s son has to collect firewood when destiny destroys him.<\/strong> The lead cow (the one in front) gets whipped the most.<\/strong> If God breaks your leg, He will teach you how to limp.<\/strong> When a tree falls on a yam farm and kills the farm’s owner, you don’t waste time counting the numbers of yam hips ruined.<\/strong> A cockroach knows how to sing and dance, but it is the hen who prevents it from performing its art during the day.<\/strong> The eyes of the wise person see through you.<\/strong> Walk on a fresh tree, the dry one will break.<\/strong> A warthog eating its fill does not delight a pig.<\/strong> The one who milks the cow is not the same person as the one who removes (plucks out) ticks from a cow.<\/strong> Love is blind.<\/strong> A debt is not a loss once one knows the debtor.<\/strong> Where there\u2019s a will there\u2019s a way.<\/strong> A tree is known by its fruit.<\/strong> It’s better to give than to receive.<\/strong> A person who is not disciplined cannot be cautioned.<\/strong> A stone from home is worth ten from the riverbed.<\/strong> The hyena with a cub does not eat up (consume) all the available food.<\/strong> The groin pains in sympathy with the sore.<\/strong> A stick is straightened while still young.<\/strong> A tree is known by its fruit.<\/strong> Great fires erupt from tiny sparks.<\/strong> – African Proverbs – Learn African wisdom with Golden Proverbs! 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. 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\nGa (Ghana) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nNgoni (Tanzania, Mozambique) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nTugen (Kenya) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nEwe-mina (Benin, Ghana, and Togo) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nArabic (Libya) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nTembo (Democratic Republic of Congo)<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nToposa (Sudan)<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nMatengo (Tanzania) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nEwe-mina (Benin, Ghana, and Togo)<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nLuo (Kenya, Tanzania)<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nNgoreme (Tanzania), Kuria (Kenya, Tanzania)<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nSena (Mozambique) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nBukusu (Kenya) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nEwe (Ghana, Benin, Nigeria and Togo) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong>
\nA child or youth who d<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nNyanja (Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia) and Chewa (Malawi) and Bemba (Zambia) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nTuareg (Algeria, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger)<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nMoore (Burkina Faso)<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nEwe (Ghana, Benin, Nigeria and Togo) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nKaonde (Zambia) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nBembe (Democratic Republic of the Congo \u2013 DRC, Tanzania) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nGikuyu (Kenya) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nAkan (Ghana) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nZulu (South Africa, Swaziland) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nSamburu (Kenya) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nSukuma (Tanzania)<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs <\/strong><\/p>\n
\nAcholi (Uganda) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nOshiwambo (Namibia)<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nSheng (Kenya) Sayings<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nGanda (Uganda) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nLongo (Tanzania) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nChagga (Tanzania) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nGanda (Uganda)<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs <\/strong><\/p>\n
\nKuria (Kenya, Tanzania)<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nMoru (Sudan) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nZulu (South Africa, Swaziland) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nDagbani (Ghana)<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nIgala (Nigeria)<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nEdo (Nigeria)<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nHaya (Tanzania) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nBena (Tanzania)<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nSena (Mozambique)<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nGikuyu (Kenya) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nMende (Sierra Leone) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nTembo (Democratic Republic of Congo)<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nSwahili (Eastern and Central Africa) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nZulu (South Africa, Swaziland) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nMalagasy (Madagascar)<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nHaya (Tanzania) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nSouthern Tashelhayt Berber (Algeria, Morocco)<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nAkamba (Kenya)<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nZulu (South Africa, Swaziland) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs <\/strong><\/p>\n
\nKiga, Ankole (Uganda) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nZulu (South Africa, Swaziland) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs <\/strong><\/p>\n
\nArabic (Libya) Proverb<\/strong>
\n~ African Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"