Below are some African proverbs from different parts of Africa. I hope you will enjoy them as much as I have....

ASHANTI

• It is the wife who knows her husband.
• One falsehood spoils a thousand truths.
• The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people.
• By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed.
• When you are rich, you are hated; when you are poor, you are despised.

BAGUIRMI

• The humble pay for the mistakes of their betters.
• A man with too much ambition cannot sleep in peace.

CAMEROON

• He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers.
• Rain does not fall on one roof alone.
• Knowledge is better than riches.

ZAIRE

• What is said over the dead lion's body, could not be said to him alive.
• Being well dressed does not prevent one from being poor.
• The teeth are smiling, but is the heart?
• Two birds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.
• Those who are absent are always wrong.

ETHIOPIA

• Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.
• A close friend can become a close enemy.
• Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bad with a hole.
• He who learns, teaches.
• One who recovers from sickness, forgets about God.

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