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Wisdom is wealth! One thing I respect deeply about
Africa is the treasure of wisdom our ancestors have
handed down to us. While some of our leaders may have
forgotten them, the rest of us don’t need to. From
prudent sayings on wisdom itself, to judicious
encouragements, warnings and even quirky advice on
learning, patience, unity, wealth, poverty, community,
family, love and marriage, these quotes will inspire you to
be the best you can possibly be.
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When you follow in the path of your father, you
learn to walk like him. ~Ashanti Proverb
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African Quotes on Wisdom
◦ Wisdom is wealth. ~ Swahili
◦ Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one
individual can embrace it. ~ Akan proverb
◦ The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~
Ethiopian proverb
◦ Wisdom does not come overnight. ~
Somali proverb
◦ The heart of the wise man lies quiet like
limpid water. ~ Cameroon proverb
◦ Wisdom is like fire. People take it from
others. ~ Hema (DRC) proverb
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◦ Only a wise person can solve a difficult
problem. ~ Akan proverb
◦ Knowledge without wisdom is like water
in the sand. ~ Guinean proverb
◦ In the moment of crisis, the wise build
bridges and the foolish build dams. ~
Nigerian proverb
◦ If you are filled with pride, then you will
have no room for wisdom. ~ African proverb
◦ A wise person will always find a way. ~
Tanzanian proverb
◦ Nobody is born wise. ~ African proverb
◦ A man who uses force is afraid of
reasoning. ~Kenyan proverb
◦ Wisdom is not like money to be tied up
and hidden. ~ Akan proverb
African Quotes on Learning
◦ Learning expands great souls. ~
Namibian proverb
◦ To get lost is to learn the way. ~ African
proverb
◦ By crawling a child learns to stand. ~
African proverb
◦ If you close your eyes to facts, you will
learn through accidents. ~ African proverb
◦ He who learns, teaches. ~ Ethiopian
proverb
◦ Wealth, if you use it, comes to an end;
learning, if you use it, increases. ~ Swahili
proverb
◦ By trying often, the monkey learns to
jump from the tree. ~ Buganda proverb
◦ You always learn a lot more when you
lose than when you win. ~ African proverb
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◦ You learn how to cut down trees by
cutting them down. ~ Bateke proverb
◦ The wise create proverbs for fools to
learn, not to repeat. ~ African proverb
◦ What you help a child to love can be
more important than what you help him to
learn. ~African proverb
◦ By the time the fool has learned the
game, the players have dispersed. ~Ashanti
proverb
◦ One who causes others misfortune also
teaches them wisdom. ~ African proverb
◦ You do not teach the paths of the forest
to an old gorilla. ~Congolese proverb
◦ What you learn is what you die with. ~
African proverb
◦ Instruction in youth is like engraving in
stone. ~Moroccan Proverb
◦ When you follow in the path of your
father, you learn to walk like him. ~Ashanti
Proverb
◦ Ears that do not listen to advice,
accompany the head when it is chopped off.
~African Proverb
◦ Advice is a stranger; if he’s welcome he
stays for the night; if not, he leaves the
same day. ~Malagasy Proverb
◦ Traveling is learning. ~Kenyan Proverb
◦ Where there are experts there will be no
lack of learners. ~Swahili Proverb
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African proverbs on Peace and Leadership
◦ Peace is costly but it is worth the
expense. ~Kenyan proverb
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◦ War has no eyes ~ Swahili saying
◦ When a king has good counselors, his
reign is peaceful. ~Ashanti proverb
◦ Peace does not make a good ruler.
~Botswana proverb
◦ A fight between grasshoppers is a joy to
the crow. ~ Lesotho proverb
◦ There can be no peace without
understanding. ~Senegalese proverb
◦ Milk and honey have different colors, but
they share the same house peacefully. ~
African proverb
◦ If you can’t resolve your problems in
peace, you can’t solve war. ~ Somalian
proverb
◦ When there is peace in the country, the
chief does not carry a shield. ~Ugandan
proverb
◦ When two elephants fight, it is the grass
that gets trampled. ~ Swahili saying
◦ Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will
go far. ~ West African proverb
◦ He who thinks he is leading and has no
one following him is only taking a walk. ~
Malawian proverb
◦ An army of sheep led by a lion can defeat
an army of lions led by a sheep. ~ Ghanaian
proverb
◦ He who is destined for power does not
have to fight for it. ~ Ugandan proverb
◦ Do not forget what is to be a sailor
because of being a captain yourself. ~
Tanzanian proverb
◦ Without a leader, black ants are
confused. ~Ugandan proverb
◦ He who refuses to obey cannot
command. ~ Kenyan proverb
◦ He who fears the sun will not become
chief. ~Ugandan proverb
◦ A large chair does not make a king. ~
Sudanese proverb
◦ Because he lost his reputation, he lost a
kingdom. ~ Ethiopian proverb
◦ Where a woman rules, streams run
uphill. ~ Ethiopian proverb
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◦ A leader who does not take advice is not
a leader. ~ Kenyan proverb
◦ If the cockroach wants to rule over the
chicken, then it must hire the fox as a body-
guard. ~ Sierra Leone proverb
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African Quotes on Unity and Community
◦ Unity is strength, division is weakness.
~ Swahili proverb
◦ Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.
~ Bondei proverb
◦ It takes a village to raise a child. ~ African
proverb
◦ Cross the river in a crowd and the
crocodile won’t eat you. ~ African proverb
◦ Many hands make light work. ~ Haya
(Tanzania) proverb
◦ Where there are many, nothing goes
wrong. ~ Swahili proverb
◦ Two ants do not fail to pull one
grasshopper. ~ Tanzanian proverb
◦ A single bracelet does not jingle. ~
Congolese proverb
◦ A single stick may smoke, but it will not
burn. ~ African proverb
◦ If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you
want to go far, go together. ~ African
proverb
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African Quotes on Family
◦ A family is like a forest, when you are
outside it is dense, when you are inside you
see that each tree has its place. ~ African
Proverb
◦ A united family eats from the same plate.
~ Baganda proverb
◦ A family tie is like a tree, it can bend but it
cannot break. ~ African proverb
◦ If I am in harmony with my family, that’s
success. ~ Ute proverb
◦ Brothers love each other when they are
equally rich. ~ African proverb
◦ Dine with a stranger but save your love
for your family. ~ Ethiopian proverb
◦ There is no fool who is disowned by his
family. ~ African proverb
◦ Home affairs are not talked about on the
public square. ~ African proverb
◦ If relatives help each other, what evil can
hurt them? ~ African proverb
◦ He who earns calamity, eats it with his
family. ~ African proverb
◦ Dine with a stranger but save your love
for your family. ~ Ethiopian proverb
◦ The old woman looks after the child to
grow its teeth and the young one in turn
looks after the old woman when she loses
her teeth. ~ Akan (Ghana, Ivory Coast)
proverb
◦ When brothers fight to the death, a
stranger inherits their father’s estate. ~ Ibo
proverb
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◦ Children are the reward of life. ~ African
proverb
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African Proverbs on Friendship
◦ To be without a friend is to be poor
indeed. ~ Tanzanian proverb
◦ Hold a true friend with both hands. ~
African proverb
◦ The friends of our friends are our friends.
~ Congolese proverb
◦ A friend is someone you share the path
with. ~ African proverb
◦ Show me your friend and I will show you
your character. ~ African proverb
◦ Return to old watering holes for more
than water; friends and dreams are there to
meet you. ~ African proverb
◦ Between true friends even water drunk
together is sweet enough. ~ African proverb
◦ A small house will hold a hundred
friends. ~ African proverb
◦ A close friend can become a close
enemy.~ African proverb
◦ Bad friends will prevent you from having
good friends. ~ Gabon proverb
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African Proverbs on Money, Wealth, Riches and Poverty
◦ Make some money but don’t let money
make you. ~ Tanzania
◦ It is no shame at all to work for money.
~ Africa
◦ He who loves money must labor.
~ Mauritania
◦ By labor comes wealth. ~ Yoruba
◦ Poverty is slavery. ~Somalia
◦ One cannot both feast and become rich.
~ Ashanti
◦ One cannot count on riches. ~ Somalia
◦ Money is sharper than the sword. –
Ashanti
◦ A man’s wealth may be superior to him.
~ Cameroon
◦ The rich are always complaining. ~ Zulu
◦ The wealth which enslaves the owner
isn’t wealth. ~ Yoruba
◦ The poor man and the rich man do not
play together. ~ Ashanti
◦ Lack of money is lack of friends; if you
have money at your disposal, every dog and
goat will claim to be related to you. ~ Yoruba
◦ With wealth one wins a woman.
~ Uganda
◦ Dogs do not actually prefer bones to
meat; it is just that no one ever gives them
meat. ~ Akan
◦ A real family eats the same cornmeal.
~ Bayombe
◦ If your cornfield is far from your house,
the birds will eat your corn. ~ Congo
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◦ Money can’t talk, yet it can make lies look
true. ~ South Africa
◦ One cannot count on riches. ~ Somalia
◦ Money is not the medicine against
death. ~ Ghana
◦ He who receives a gift does not measure.
~ Africa
◦ Much wealth brings many enemies. –
Swahili
◦ There is no one who became rich
because he broke a holiday, no one became
fat because he broke a fast. ~ Ethiopia
◦ What you give you get, ten times over.
~ Yoruba
◦ Greed loses what it has gained. ~ Africa
◦ You become wise when you begin to run
out of money. ~ Ghana
◦ If ten cents does not go out, it does not
bring in one thousand dollars. ~ Ghana
◦ You should not hoard your money and
die of hunger. – Ghana
◦ Wealth diminishes with usage; learning
increases with use. ~ Nigeria
◦ Wisdom is not like money to be tied up
and hidden. ~ Akan
◦ Having a good discussion is like having
riches ~ Kenya
◦ Knowledge is better than riches.
~ Cameroon
◦ You must act as if it is impossible to fail.
~ Ashanti
◦ Do not let what you cannot do tear from
your hands what you can. ~ Ashanti
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Proverbs on Beauty
◦ One who plants grapes by the road side,
and one who marries a pretty woman, share
the same problem. ~Ethiopian Proverb
◦ Beautiful from behind, ugly in front.
~Uganda Proverb
◦ The skin of the leopard is beautiful, but
not his heart. ~Baluba proverb
◦ Ugliness with a good character is better
than beauty. ~Nigerian Proverb
◦ A beautiful one hurts the heart. ~African
Proverb
◦ Anyone who sees beauty and does not
look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruba Proverb
◦ The surface of the water is beautiful, but
it is no good to sleep on. ~Ghanaian Proverb
◦ If there is character, ugliness becomes
beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes
ugliness. ~Nigerian Proverb
◦ You are beautiful, but learn to work, for
you cannot eat your beauty. ~Congolese
Proverb
◦ The one who loves an unsightly person is
the one who makes him beautiful. ~Ganda
Proverb
◦ Having beauty doesn’t mean
understanding the perseverance of
marriage. ~African Proverb
◦ You are beautiful because of your
possessions. ~Baguirmi Proverb
◦ Every woman is beautiful until she
speaks. ~Zimbabwean Proverb
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◦ Three things cause sorrow to flee; water,
green trees, and a beautiful face.
~Moroccan Proverb
◦ A beautiful thing is never perfect.
~Egyptian Proverb
◦ Patience is the mother of a beautiful
child. ~Bantu Proverb
◦ There is no beauty but the beauty of
action. ~Moroccan Proverb
◦ Judge not your beauty by the number of
people who look at you, but rather by the
number of people who smile at you.
~African Proverb
◦ A pretty face and fine clothes do not
make character. ~Congolese Proverb
◦ Youth is beauty, even in cattle. ~Egyptian
Proverb
◦ A pretty basket does not prevent worries.
~Congolese Proverb
◦ It’s those ugly caterpillars that turn into
beautiful butterflies after seasons. ~African
Proverb
◦ The most beautiful fig may contain a
worm. ~Zulu Proverb
◦ It is only a stupid cow that rejoices at the
prospect of being taken to a beautiful
abattoir. ~African Proverb
◦ A woman who pursues a man for sex
loses her spiritual beauty. ~African Proverb
◦ A chicken with beautiful plumage does
not sit in a corner. ~African Proverb
◦ The cook does not have to be a beautiful
woman. ~Shona Proverb
◦ Beautiful words don’t put porridge in the
pot. ~Botswana Proverb
◦ She is beautiful; she has love,
understands; she respects herself and
others; everyone likes, loves and honors
her; she is a goddess. ~African Proverb
◦ There is always a winner even in a
monkey’s beauty contest. ~African Proverb
◦ Dress up a stick and it’ll be a beautiful
bride. ~Egyptian Proverb
◦ An ugly child of your own is more to you
than a beautiful one belonging to your
neighbor. ~Ganda Proverb
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◦ Even the colors of a chameleon are for
survival not beauty. ~African Proverb
◦ Beautiful discourse is rarer than emerald
~ yet it can be found among the servant
girls at the grindstones. ~Egyptian Proverb
◦ When a once-beautiful piece of cloth has
turned into rags, no one remembers that it
was woven by Ukwa master weavers. ~Igbo
Proverb
◦ A woman’s polite devotion is her greatest
beauty. ~African Proverb
◦ There are many colorful flowers on the
path of life, but the prettiest have the
sharpest thorns. ~African Proverb
◦ He who marries a beauty marries
trouble. ~Nigerian Proverb
◦ Despite the beauty of the moon, sun and
the stars, the sky also has a threatening
thunder and striking lightening. ~African
Proverb
◦ Getting only a beautiful woman is like
planting a vine on the roadside everyone
feeds on it. ~African Proverb
◦ Greatness and beauty do not belong to
the gods alone. ~Nigerian Proverb
◦ Roosters’ tail feathers: pretty but always
behind. ~Malagasy Proverb
◦ Beauty is not sold and eaten. ~Nigerian
Proverb
◦ She is like a road – pretty, but crooked.
~Cameroonian Proverb
◦ Why they like an ugly person takes long
for a beautiful person to know. ~African
Proverb
◦ If you find “Miss This Year” beautiful, then
you’ll find “Miss Next Year” even more so.
~Nigerian Proverb
◦ The beauty of a woman becomes useless
if there is no one to admire it. ~African
Proverb
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African Love and Marriage Quotes
◦ He who loves the vase loves also what is
inside. ~ African proverb
◦ It’s much easier to fall in love than to stay
in love. ~ African proverb
◦ Coffee and love taste best when hot. ~
Ethiopian proverb
◦ Where there is love there is no darkness.
~Burundian proverb
◦ If you are ugly you must either learn to
dance or make love. ~ Zimbabwean Proverp
◦ Pretend you are dead and you will see
who really loves you. ~ African proverb
◦ To love the king is not bad, but a king
who loves you is better. ~ Wolof proverb
◦ A happy man marries the girl he loves,
but a happier man loves the girl he marries.
~ African proverb
◦ If you marry a monkey for his wealth, the
money goes and the monkey remains as is.
~ Egyptian proverb
◦ Love never gets lost it’s only kept. ~
African proverb
◦ Never marry a woman who has bigger
feet than you. ~ Mozambique proverb
◦ One thread for the needle, one love for
the heart. ~ Sudanese proverb
◦ Love has to be shown by deeds not
words. ~ Swahili proverb
◦ Love is a despot who spares no one.
~Namibian proverb
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◦ Marriage is like a groundnut; you have to
crack it to see what is inside. ~ Ghanaian
proverb
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African Quotes on Patience
◦ Patience is the key which solves all
problems. ~ Sudanese proverb
◦ Hurry, hurry has no blessings. ~ Swahili
proverb
◦ Patience is the mother of a beautiful
child. ~ Bantu proverb
◦ To run is not necessarily to arrive. ~
Swahili proverb
◦ Patience can cook a stone. ~ African
proverb
◦ A patient man will eat ripe fruit. ~ African
proverb
◦ At the bottom of patience one finds
heaven. ~ African proverb
◦ A patient person never misses a thing. ~
Swahili proverb
◦ Patience puts a crown on the head.
~ Ugandan proverb
◦ Patience attracts happiness; it brings
near that which is far. ~ Swahili proverb
◦ Always being in a hurry does not prevent
death, neither does going slowly prevent
living. ~ Ibo proverb
◦ However long the night, the dawn will
break. ~ African proverb (personal
favourite!)
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African Quotes on Food
◦ As porridge benefits those who heat and
eat it, so does a child benefit those that rear
it. ~Amharic Proverb
◦ The forest not only hides man’s enemies
but its full of man’s medicine, healing power
and food. ~African Proverb
◦ One person is a thin porridge; two or
three people are a lump of ugali. ~Kuria
Proverb
◦ The man who counts the bits of food he
swallows is never satisfied. ~African Proverb
◦ Wine, women and food give gladness to
the heart. ~Ancient Egyptian Proverb
◦ The food that is in the mouth is not yet in
the belly. ~Kikuyu Proverb
◦ You cannot work for food when there is
no food for work. ~African Proverb
◦ The chicken that digs for food will not
sleep hungry. ~Bayombe Proverb
◦ He who eats another mans food will have
his own food eaten by others. ~Swahili
Proverb
◦ Food gained by fraud tastes sweet to a
man, but he ends up with gravel in his
mouth. ~African Proverb
◦ No partridge scratches the ground in
search of food for another. ~Xhosa Proverb
◦ The grasshopper which is always near its
mother eats the best food. ~Ghanaian
Proverb
◦ Don’t take another mouthful before you
have swallowed what is in your mouth.
~Malagasy Proverb
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◦ Rich people sometimes eat bad food.
~Kikuyu Proverb
◦ The impotent man does not eat spicy
foods. ~Congolese Proverb
◦ You should know what’s being cooked in
the kitchen otherwise you might eat a
forbidden food. ~African Proverb
◦ When the leg does not walk, the stomach
does not eat. ~Mongo (Congolese) Proverb
◦ A healthy person who begs for food is an
insult to a generous farmer. ~Ghanaian
Proverb
◦ One spoon of soup in need has more
value than a pot of soup when we have an
abundance of food. ~Angolan Proverb
◦ Cooked food is not sold for goats.
~Kikuyu Proverb
◦ The mouth is stupid after eating it forgets
who gave it the food. ~African Proverb
◦ A dog knows the places he is thrown
food. ~Acholi Proverb
◦ One who eats alone cannot discuss the
taste of the food with others. ~African
Proverb
◦ Words are sweet, but they never take the
place of food. ~Ibo Proverb
◦ The man who has bread to eat does not
appreciate the severity of a famine. ~Yoruba
Proverb
◦ He who doesn’t clean his mouth before
breakfast always complains that the food is
sour. ~African Proverb
◦ The hyena with a cub does not consume
all the available food. ~Akamba Proverb
◦ When the food is cooked there is no
need to wait before eating it. ~Kikuyu
Proverb
◦ What one won’t eat by itself, one will eat
when mixed with other food. ~Bantu &
Lamba Proverb
◦ Man is like a pepper, till you have chewed
it you do not know how hot it is. ~Haussa
Proverb
◦ No one gets a mouthful of food by
picking between another person’s teeth.
~Igbo Proverb
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◦ It is not the cook’s fault when the cassava
turns out to be hard and tasteless. ~Ewe
Proverb
◦ A housewife who complains that there is
not enough foodstuff in the market should
remember that if her husband adds to what
is already available, there would be more
for everyone. ~Nigerian Proverb
◦ A spider’s cobweb isn’t only its sleeping
spring but also its food trap. ~African
Proverb
◦ If you watch your pot, your food will not
burn. ~Mauritanian, Nigerian, and Niger
Proverb
◦ Those who are at one regarding food are
at one in life. ~Malawian Proverb
◦ Fine words do not produce food.
~Nigerian Proverb
◦ Even the best cooking pot will not
produce food. ~African Proverb
◦ If I could see your face, I would not need
food. ~Amharic Proverb
◦ If you find no fish, you have to eat bread.
~Ghanaian Proverb
◦ War is not porridge. ~Gikuyu Proverb
◦ The best of mankind is a farmer; the best
food is fruit. ~Ethiopian Proverb
◦ Slowly, slowly, porridge goes into the
gourd. ~Kuria People of Kenyan & Tanzania
◦ One shares food not words. ~Somali
Proverb
◦ If you are looking for a fly in your food it
means that you are full. ~South African
Proverb
◦ Nature gave us two cheeks instead of
one to make it easier to eat hot food.
~Ghanaian Proverb
◦ A patient that can swallow food makes
the nurse doubtful. ~Malagasy Proverb
◦ If you give bad food to your stomach, it
drums for you to dance. ~African Proverb
◦ A bad cook also has his/her share of the
bad food. ~African Proverb
◦ The forest provides food to the hunter
after he is utterly exhausted. ~Zimbabwean
Proverb
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◦ Things are to be tried, an old lady cooked
stones and they produced soup.
~Zimbabwean Proverb
◦ You cannot tell a hungry child that you
gave him food yesterday. ~Zimbabwean
Proverb
◦ Good music goes with good food.
~African Proverb
◦ Rich people cook their food in a
potsherd. ~Kikuyu Proverb
◦ However little food we have, we’ll share it
even if it’s only one locust. ~Malagasy
Proverb
◦ Water is colourless and tasteless but you
can live on it longer than eating food.
~African Proverb
◦ Eat when the food is ready; speak when
the time is right. ~Ethiopian Proverb
◦ The food eaten first lasts longest in the
stomach. ~Kikuyu Proverb
◦ When your luck deserts you, even cold
food burns. ~Zambian Proverb
◦ Happiness is as good as food. ~Maasai
Proverb
◦ Good words are food, bad words poison.
~Malagasy Proverb
◦ The goat says: “Where there is blood,
there is plenty of food.” ~Ghanaian Proverb
◦ If you see a man in a gown eating with a
man in rags, the food belongs to the latter.
~Fulani Proverb
◦ They ate our food, and forgot our names.
~Tunisian Proverb
◦ An abundance of food at your
neighbour’s will not satisfy your hunger.
~Bayaka Proverb
◦ Food you will not eat you do not boil.
~African Proverb
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A F R I C A N - W I S E - P R O V E R B S / ?
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R E P L Y ( / T H E - B E S T - 7 2 -
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Africa is land full of wisdom.
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With all these great African proverbs why is
Africa so united and not progressed perhaps
from western viewpoint?
Or perhaps am I looking from a materialistic
point of view?perhaps it has reached it’s
peak from a spiritual happiness index?
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When people hear “Africa” they think of
one big country, despite all of it’s
problems countries in Africa are
progressing but you never see or hear of
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that on the news, all you see or hear
about is the wars,famine and corruption.
Most of these african countries barely
gained independence in the 50′s,60′s and
70′s but oh men…… they doing so well
and I am proud of them and and proud
to be African.
I know that Africa will progress but it
won’t happen over time,we need all
those children that went to the Europes
and Americas to further their to come
back and rebuild africa.
Africans are rich in happiness despite
our struggles, we are always laughing
and smiling,shaking hands and never
letting go, shouting on top of our voices
when excited, but only a few outsiders
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R E P L Y ( / T H E - B E S T - 7 2 -
A F R I C A N - W I S E - P R O V E R B S / ?
R E P L Y T O C O M = 4 8 7 9 # R E S P O N D )
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A pretty face and fine clothes do not make
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R E P L Y ( / T H E - B E S T - 7 2 -
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R E P L Y T O C O M = 4 8 8 0 # R E S P O N D )
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R E P L Y ( / T H E - B E S T - 7 2 -
A F R I C A N - W I S E - P R O V E R B S / ?
R E P L Y T O C O M = 5 1 8 8 # R E S P O N D )
R E P L Y ( / T H E - B E S T - 7 2 -
A F R I C A N - W I S E - P R O V E R B S / ?
R E P L Y T O C O M = 5 2 3 4 # R E S P O N D )
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A F R I C A N - W I S E - P R O V E R B S / ?
R E P L Y T O C O M = 5 3 7 9 # R E S P O N D )
R E P L Y ( / T H E - B E S T - 7 2 -
A F R I C A N - W I S E - P R O V E R B S / ?
R E P L Y T O C O M = 5 4 7 2 # R E S P O N D )
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R E P L Y ( / T H E - B E S T - 7 2 -
A F R I C A N - W I S E - P R O V E R B S / ?
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R E P L Y T O C O M = 5 5 9 6 # R E S P O N D )
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We’ve added more proverbs to our much-
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R E P L Y ( / T H E - B E S T - 7 2 -
A F R I C A N - W I S E - P R O V E R B S / ?
R E P L Y T O C O M = 5 5 9 5 # R E S P O N D )
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A F R I C A N - W I S E - P R O V E R B S / ?
R E P L Y T O C O M = 5 5 9 4 # R E S P O N D )
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R E P L Y ( / T H E - B E S T - 7 2 -
A F R I C A N - W I S E - P R O V E R B S / ?
R E P L Y T O C O M = 5 7 0 5 # R E S P O N D )
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african-wise-proverbs/#comment-5705)
•Patience attracts happiness; it brings near
that which is far
Awesome proverbs
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african-wise-proverbs/#comment-5706)
Life is a challenge and not a competition
Love with your heart
There is only one you
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R E P L Y ( / T H E - B E S T - 7 2 -
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R E P L Y T O C O M = 5 7 4 5 # R E S P O N D )
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Gems abound here: http://t.co/bXDfZ3Ku
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african-wise-proverbs/#comment-5760)
I love this beautiful proverbs keeps us
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R E P L Y ( / T H E - B E S T - 7 2 -
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enlightened…….thx alot!!
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(http://afr itoria l .com/the-best-72-
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R E P L Y ( / T H E - B E S T - 7 2 -
A F R I C A N - W I S E - P R O V E R B S / ?
R E P L Y T O C O M = 5 8 3 0 # R E S P O N D )
Desemond De vos
(http://Website)March 1, 2013
(http://afr itoria l .com/the-best-72-
african-wise-proverbs/#comment-5830)
I’m proud to be an African…
R E P L Y ( / T H E - B E S T - 7 2 -
A F R I C A N - W I S E - P R O V E R B S / ?
R E P L Y T O C O M = 5 8 3 1 # R E S P O N D )
@RobGTheGeneral
(http://twitter.com/RobGTheGeneral/status/307473398836125697/)March 1, 2013
(http://afr itoria l .com/the-best-72-
african-wise-proverbs/#comment-5831)
@Khekerem Are you abreast of all Nigerian
Proverbs? Here ya’ go.
http://t.co/jwVU07uC75
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(http://afr itoria l .com/the-best-72-
african-wise-proverbs/#comment-5862)
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R E P L Y ( / T H E - B E S T - 7 2 -
A F R I C A N - W I S E - P R O V E R B S / ?
R E P L Y T O C O M = 5 8 6 2 # R E S P O N D )
R E P L Y ( / T H E - B E S T - 7 2 -
A F R I C A N - W I S E - P R O V E R B S / ?
R E P L Y T O C O M = 5 8 6 1 # R E S P O N D )
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– http://t.co/7cSC5FC4Oy
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R E P L Y ( / T H E - B E S T - 7 2 -
A F R I C A N - W I S E - P R O V E R B S / ?
R E P L Y T O C O M = 5 8 5 3 # R E S P O N D )
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(http://afr itoria l .com/the-best-72-
african-wise-proverbs/#comment-5853)
Reading these proverbs makes me proud to
be African. I hope you dont mind me sharing
them.
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R E P L Y ( / T H E - B E S T - 7 2 -
A F R I C A N - W I S E - P R O V E R B S / ?
R E P L Y T O C O M = 5 8 6 0 # R E S P O N D )
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african-wise-proverbs/#comment-5860)
RT @HaroldWNelson: #BlackPeopleActivities
– African wise proverbs and inspiring quotes
– http://t.co/7cSC5FC4Oy
(http://t.co/7cSC5FC4Oy)
R E P L Y ( / T H E - B E S T - 7 2 -
A F R I C A N - W I S E - P R O V E R B S / ?
R E P L Y T O C O M = 5 9 8 0 # R E S P O N D )
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(http://afr itoria l .com/the-best-72-
african-wise-proverbs/#comment-5980)
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inspiring quotes | AFRiTORIAL
http://t.co/RvGdt2xuHm
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(http://twitter.com/Sun02shine/status/325376097057386497/)Apri l 19, 2013
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african-wise-proverbs/#comment-5979)
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R E P L Y ( / T H E - B E S T - 7 2 -
A F R I C A N - W I S E - P R O V E R B S / ?
R E P L Y T O C O M = 5 9 7 9 # R E S P O N D )
Interesting read: Afritorial
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R E P L Y ( / T H E - B E S T - 7 2 -
A F R I C A N - W I S E - P R O V E R B S / ?
R E P L Y T O C O M = 6 1 4 7 # R E S P O N D )
Isaac M Mwale
(http://google.com)February 4, 2014
(http://afr itoria l .com/the-best-72-
african-wise-proverbs/#comment-6147)
I love the proverbs. they really teach a lot.
R E P L Y ( / T H E - B E S T - 7 2 -
A F R I C A N - W I S E - P R O V E R B S / ?
R E P L Y T O C O M = 6 1 5 2 # R E S P O N D )
Neva Mwiti
(http://afritorial.com/about/)February 5, 2014
(http://afr itoria l .com/the-best-72-
african-wise-proverbs/#comment-
6152)
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them – we hope that you now live them
The Team @ Afritorial.
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R E P L Y ( / T H E - B E S T - 7 2 -
A F R I C A N - W I S E - P R O V E R B S / ?
R E P L Y T O C O M = 6 2 1 2 # R E S P O N D )
longole MarkFebruary 13, 2014
(http://afr itoria l .com/the-best-72-
african-wise-proverbs/#comment-6212)
preserving African identifty, love and
treasure is through the proverbs taught by
our forefathers, we should emulate them
R E P L Y ( / T H E - B E S T - 7 2 -
A F R I C A N - W I S E - P R O V E R B S / ?
R E P L Y T O C O M = 6 2 2 6 # R E S P O N D )
BlessingFebruary 16, 2014
(http://afr itoria l .com/the-best-72-
african-wise-proverbs/#comment-6226)
This is great staff i really enjoyed
the.proverbs.
R E P L Y ( / T H E - B E S T - 7 2 -
A F R I C A N - W I S E - P R O V E R B S / ?
R E P L Y T O C O M = 6 5 7 2 # R E S P O N D )
EdwinMarch 27, 2014
(http://afr itoria l .com/the-best-72-
african-wise-proverbs/#comment-6572)
Awesome
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I really enjoyed the proverbs
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proverbs/#comment-6660)
i love reading proverbs…but am going to
add one on top of leadership…A leader is he
who tells his people what they most hear
not what they want to hear..
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