African Proverbs

Reference

iOS

Baganda
* One who loves you, warns you.
Ethiopian

* Evil enters like a splinter and spreads like an oak tree.
Ghanaian

* Be glad you are unknown, for when you are known, you would wish you weren’t
* The lizard does not eat hot chillies for the frog to sweat.
English equivalent: Monkeys play by sizes
* So many little things makes a man love a woman in a BIG way.
* Do good because of tomorrow
* The length of a frog can only be determined after it dies.
* It is a fool who rejoices when his neighbor is in trouble.
* Be mindful of your own fingers when you are chewing that of a monkey
* As you worship plantain, remember to worship banana as well.
* Count not only my blessings but also count my worries and struggles as well.

West African

* What you cannot see during the day, you will not see at night.

Nigerian

* If a toad jumps around in the daytime, it is either chasing something or something is chasing it.
* A bird that flies from the ground onto an anthill does not know that it is still on the ground.
* When mother cow is cropping grass, her young one watches her mouth.
* Proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten.
* The earth moves at different speeds depending on who you are.
* When the elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.
* The child that will not allow his parents to sleep through the night must be prepared to stay awake himself.
* A person once bitten by a snake will be scared by an old rope.
* When the bush is on fire, the antelope ceases to fear the hunter’s bullet.
* He who dines with the dogs will eat feces.
* A snake will always give birth to something long.

Sierra Leone

* You can’t scare a monkey with a dead baboon.

South African

* Not everyone who chased the zebra caught it, but he who caught it chased it.
* I relied on the report of "ntulo" (the blue-headed lizard).

Zimbabwean

* A weaning baby that does not cry aloud will die on its mothers back.
* The forest provides food to the hunter after he is utterly exhausted.
* One’s neighbors’ problems do not induce one to lose one’s appetite.
* If you are ugly you must either learn to dance or make love.
* That which has horns can not be wrapped.
* A man that does not lie shall never marry.
* Eat what you have found with your relatives, non-relatives are forgetful.
* A king’s child is a slave elsewhere.
* What forgets is the axe, but the tree that has been axed will never forget.
* Things are to be tried, an old lady cooked stones and they produced soup.

Zulu

* In the home of the coward, there is no funeral dirge.
* A fine staff is hewn from flora in foreign lands.

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