African Proverbs of the Week

Culture | Education
1 min read • April 10, 2024
African Proverbs of the Week

When you are sitting in your own house, you don’t learn anything. You must get out of your house to learn.

It is a child who has never traveled who says that only his mother prepares tasty meals.

If you’ve not been on someone else’s farm, you cannot say that you’re the only true farmer.

Nobody can prepare for the harmattan* by drinking plenty of water.

It is the human being that counts. I call gold; it does not answer. I call cloth; it does not answer. It is the human being that counts.

You must act as if it is impossible to fail.

The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people.

Two men in a burning house must not stop to argue.

A child who asks questions does not become a fool.

Knowledge is like a baobab tree; no one can encompass it with their hands.

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