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Wealth diminishes with usage; learning increases with use.
~ Nigerian proverb
You always learn a lot more when you lose than when you win.
~ African proverb
The zebra told the white horse, "I am white," and told the black horse, "I am actually black.
~ African proverb
It is no shame at all to work for money.
~ African proverb
He who loves money must labor.
~ Mauritaniam proverb
If you can’t resolve your problems in peace, you can’t solve them with war.
~ Somalian proverb
Nobody is born wise.
~ African proverb
Where there is love there is no darkness.
~ Burundi
It is better to be loved than feared.
~ Sierra Leone
The way to the beloved isn't thorny.
~ Cameroon (Duala)
In the moment of crisis, the wise build bridges and the foolish build dams.
~ Nigerian proverb
Sweet words lure the snake out of its cave.
~ Haya (Tanzania) Proverb
Meaning: If you wish to achieve an aim, you must be tactical.
You overcame the rain, but what about the dew? (English)
Sumbwa (Tanzania) Proverb
Meaning: This
proverb could be first of all a gentle reminder for people who may feel
tempted to think that they have already achieved so much in this life
that no effort is needed from them any more. Achievements are only but
openings towards greater challenges. Technical achievements for instance
do help greater mobility for good for people all over the world, but
they raise the perilous task to protect our entire planet. As for
leaders who may think they have already reached a status so high that
they need no longer make any more effort ~ ~ they are forgetting that
they are generating cracks from within themselves that will most
certainly cause bitter disappointments.
Source: www.afriprov.org
Work done in the right way rewards both the employer and the employee. (English)
~ Borana (Kenya) Proverb
Women are part of the origin of life’s big mystery on earth; they know the secret of a good life.
~ Kuba Proverb
The Kuba is an old empire in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) known for it traditional art and design. The life and work of the Kuba woman centered on the home and duties to her family. She is a mother of many children and the wise and industrious manager of the household, providing for the welfare of her husband and children. A Kuba woman knows the path of success in life. She plays a critical role. Her skills,resourcefulness, industry, wisdom, and hospitality, rather than her fertility or beauty, make her keep her home, husband, and the entire family together. A Kuba woman is considered as a life giver. She is mother to the society. This is the ideal portrait of the adult female in the Kuba Empire.
"Peace is costly but it is worth the expense"
~ African proverb
"When you follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him."
~ Ghanian Proverb
Experience the wealth and depth of African culture. African proverbs have been used for centuries to pass wisdom and heritage from one generation to the next.
The hunter in pursuit of an elephant does not stop to throw stones at birds.
~ Mandinka Proverb
Between two friends even water drunk together is sweet enough.
~ Zimbabwe
A ripe melon falls by itself.
~ Zimbabwe proverb
Meaning: All things happen when their times come
Words are spoken with their shells; let the wise man come to shuck them.
~ Mossi proverb from West Africa
The dead say to each other, "Dead one".
~ Mandinka
An analogy for a wicked person pointing out another person's wickedness.
Even the Niger River must flow around an island.
~ Hausa proverb from Nigeria
Meaning: Sometimes the strongest person must turn aside.
When the drumbeat changes, the dance changes.
~ Hausa proverb from Nigeria
No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.
~ Ashanti Proverb from Ghana
What the people think cannot be denied.
~ Basakata proverb
A student doesn't know about master hood but a master knows about student hood.
~ Mandinka proverb
(Meaning: A master was once a student and cannot be fooled easily.)
His opinions are like water in the bottom of a canoe, going from side to side.
~ Efik Proverb from Nigeria and Cameroon proverb
"Once the mushroom has sprouted from the earth, there is no turning back."
~ Luo proverb
When a man thinks he is too big or great to fall, it only takes a little thing to bring him down.
~ Unknown
To have no enemies is the same as having wealth.
~ Unknown
The wealth of the greedy ultimately goes to the community.
~ Unknown
Americanized Version: If there are two brothers in a home, both must work to feed the family."
It is better to walk than curse the road.
~ Wolof proverb, Senegal
Loving someone that does not love you is like loving the rain that falls in the forest.
~ Western African proverb
Only Someone else can scratch your back.
~ Luyia Proverb, Western Kenya
Only a medicine man gets rich by sleeping
~ Nairobi, Kenya
It is the toothless animal that arrives first at the base of the fruit tree, to eat his fill before others arrive.
~ Nigerian proverb
A camel does not tease another camel about its humps.
~ Egyptian proverb
The leech that does not let go even when it is filled, dies on the dry land.
~ African proverb on greed.
A Mothers Tenderness for her children is as discrete as the dew that kisses the Earth.
~ Nigerian Proverb
Even without drumbeats, the banana leaves dance.
~Congo proverb
The man may be the head of the home, but the wife is the heart.
~Kenyan proverb
You are beautiful, but learn to work. For you cannot eat your beauty.
~ Congo proverb
Though the cheetah is fierce, it does not devour its cubs.
~Ethiopian proverb
When elephants fight, the grass gets hurt.
~Swahili proverb
Covetousness is the father of disease.
~African proverb
When the right hand washed the left hand and the left hand washes the right, both hands become clean.
~African proverb
When the webs of the spider join, they can trap a lion
~ Ethiopian proverb
How can man be remembered when the giant trees in the forest are soon forgotten.