TRADITIONAL AFRICAN PROVERBS

If a blind man says lets throw stones , be assured that he has stepped on one.(Hausa, Nigeria)

Those who get to River early drink the cleanest water. (Kenya).

If a donkey kicks you and you kick it back, you are both donkeys.(Gambia).

“Rat no dey born Rabbit”.(Nigeria).

An elephant’s tasks are never too heavy for it.(Zimbabwe).

Strategy is better than strength.(Hausa, Nigeria)

The man who has bread to eat does not appreciate the severity of a famine.(Yoruba,Nigeria)

Two men in a burning house must not stop to argue.(Ashanti,Ghana)

A donkey always says thank you with a kick.(Kenya)

No one can uproot the true which God has planted.(Yoruba,Nigeria)

Only a fools sheep runs away twice. (Ashanti, Ghana)

It is a fool whose own tomatoes are sold to him.(Akan, Ghana)

Nobody gathers firewood to roast a thin goat.(Kenya)