~ Kenyan ProverbIt’s like removing a hyena from a pit. African Quotes: 108 Popular African Sayings that Will Get You Thinking Africa is known to have a very rich culture and part of it can easily be seen in African quotes. Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. ~ Burundian ProverbIf a leader loves you, he makes sure you build your house on rock ~ Ugandan ProverbOld and new millet seeds end up in the same mill. It was not the Maxim gun. “I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Am inspired and may coconut grow on your head. ~ Congolese ProverbThe bee is the doctor of flowers. How could Europe lord it over a continent ten times its size? ~ Swahili ProverbA bird that flies from the ground onto an anthill does not know that it is still on the ground. Like Family Matters…. ~ Chewa ProverbWhen the moon is not full, the stars shine more brightly. I love your smell as I love these smells. ~Ghanaian ProverbThe antics of a market buffoon provide laughter, but nobody prays that his child becomes the market buffoon. ~ Twi ProverbEven an ant can hurt an elephant.

African Proverb If you don't stand for something, you will fall for something.

am proudly nigerian.This is great but you can check out Nigerian proverbs too- Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo proverbs. ~ Egyptian ProverbIf you are building a house and a nail breaks, do you stop building, or do you change the nail? “No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa & America.” “God has created lands with lakes and rivers for man to live. “If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me?

~ Kenyan ProverbHe who cannot dance will say, The drum is bad! This material may not be published without permission, rewritten or redistributed.

Yoruba, my people will say Owe lesin oro, bi oro ba sonu owe lafi nwa, meaning proverb is the horse of words, when word gets lost , we employ proverb to find it!“It is not because the lion has grown pale that you will call it, a cat”(pygmy proverb cameroon

~ Algerian ProverbIf a blind man says he will throw a stone at you, he probably has his foot on one. ~ African ProverbEven the best dancer on the stage must retire sometime. And the desert so that he can find his soul.”Comment… two rams can’t drink in thesame bucket, they will lock horns….“Until the Lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter” is my favourite.I love Afrikan wisdom!MEDASE PA(I THANK YOU VERY MUCH I LAY AT YOUR FEET).Ouf!!! It is a soundless echo.” When I am back in New York, Africa immediately seems fantastical – a wildly plumaged bird, as exotic as it is unlikely. African Proverb.

~ African ProverbDance, father, people’s eyes don’t eat, they just stare. ~ African ProverbChildren are the reward of life. He who dictates separates himself from others. Now I can see the edge of the world.”

“Our fathers fought bravely.

~ Ibo proverb [clickToTweet tweet=”Words are sweet, but they never take the place of food. ~ Buli ProverbWhere error gets to, correction cannot reach. ~ Kenyan ProverbA snake that you can see does not bite. In reality, except as a geographical appellation, Africa does not exist.” ~ Nigerian ProverbA brave man dies once, a coward a thousand times. My head bulges with the effort to contain both worlds. ~Nigerian ProverbConfiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the faith: all know how to die but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. ~ African ProverbThe vultures would not land at the village in which there is a wise old man. To help you, to hurt you, to leave you, to love you and to make you the person you were meant to be.” Anonymous ~ African ProverbWhere a woman rules, stream run uphill. ~ Kenyan ProverbA king’s child is a slave elsewhere. ~ Maasai ProverbWe are what our thinking makes us. ~ Ghanaian ProverbWhen a fish rots, the head stinks first ~ Ghanaian ProverbOne foot isn’t enough to walk with. Only with the greatest simplification, for the sake of convenience, can we say 'Africa'. Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

“We pull on to the road, where our only company are the wandering cattle, who have become commonplace as traffic lights. ~ African ProverbAn empty pot makes the loudest noise. ~ Somali ProverbMisfortune of soup made of shanks and feet.