African proverbs are used to impart knowledge and moral values. As a result, they offer guidance on how to have a happy and prosperous life as well as moral precepts, which are conveyed via them.....CONTINUE READING THE FULL STORIES HERE
African proverbs play a significant role in moral and social education as well as in showing people how to behave themselves successfully in everyday life.
1. The darkness has ears. — Masai saying
2. You were not conceived by the child you bear. — Somali saying
3. A Nigerian proverb states that a doctor who summoned a storm on his people cannot save his home from being destroyed.
4. A Senegalese proverb states that an intelligent foe is preferable to a dimwitted friend.
5. A Tswana proverb states that a young bird won’t crow until it hears the older ones.
6. Avoid dancing while carrying the egg basket. — Ambede saying
7. There is no master over the food that is prepared. — Malagasy proverb
8. The elders’ worlds only lock the right door; they do not lock the others. —Zambian proverb
9. Food won’t be produced by even the best cooking pot. – Afrocentric saying
10. The Malagasy proverb “The child of a rat is a rat” is comparable to the Japanese idiom “The child of a frog is a frog.”
11. Your current position reveals where you stood when you were younger. — Yoruba saying
12. A Masai proverb states that a person who is unable to dance claims the yard is stony.
13. African proverb: “You can’t name a child that hasn’t been born.”
14. Egyptian proverb: “Do a good deed and cast it into the sea.”
15. A Nigerian proverb states that when a tree’s roots start to rot, the branches will soon follow.
16. The frogs will hear slander by the stream. — Mozambique saying
17. Everyone is the parent of a child. — Sudanese saying
18. According to a Ghanaian proverb, even the king of the forest, the lion, defends itself from flies.
19. Birds sing because they have songs, not because they know the answers. – Afrocentric saying
20. According to a Gambian proverb, if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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