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vendredi 21 mars 2014

AFRICAN PROVERBS


 If you cure a monkey of its toothache it is your maize farm that suffers
Sent by William Bol, Juba, South Sudan

 Better a single decision-maker than a thousand advisors
Sent by Laam Laam, Kampala, Uganda
You do not have to tell a blind person that there is no salt in the soup
An Igbo proverb sent by Nnaji Innocent, Antwerpen, Belgium

  A single bracelet does not jingle
Sent by Bilal Mohamed in Somalia 

Everyone who stretches a skin on a drum pulls the skin to his own side
A Swahili proverb sent by Babu David Hella, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 

A child is like an axe: it hurts you but you still carry it on your shoulder   
A Bemba proverb from Zambia sent by Patricia Jonker-Cholwe, UK

 God will drive the flies away from a tailless cow
A proverb from Sierra Leone sent by Olakunle Adegbehingbe, London, UK

 Don't expect honey from a house fly
An Amharic proverb from Ethiopia sent by Muluken, Auckland, New Zealand 

Those who have not crossed the river yet should not laugh at those who are drowning
Sent by Baissou SB, Mali
Vultures are bald but they are not all elders
A Yoruba proverb sent by Imonitie C. Imoisili, Lagos, Nigeria

It's only on the day the frog dies that you can measure its length
A Ghanaian proverb sent by Johnny Asare, Chigasaki, Japan

Oh, cow! You looked at the grass but you didn't see the ditch
An Ethiopian proverb sent by Melos Snetbeb in the Netherlands
A king is not kin
A Wolof proverb from Senegal and The Gambia sent by M Ndiaye in Wisconsin, the US

 A spider web that gets in the way of an elephant entering the stream will get pulled along
Sent by Niyi AB Elesin Itakun in Lagos, Nigeria and Ayokunle Muritala in Dundee, Scotland

 A clever bird builds its nest with other birds' feathers
A Shona proverb from Zimbabwe sent by Chenjerai Hove, Stavanger, Norway

“A monkey left behind laughs at the other's tail”
An Acholi proverb from Uganda sent by Ebrima Jawo, Banjul, The Gambia



“If the waterbuck continues returning to one place it will meet its death ”

A Lubgara proverb sent by Akudrabo Geoffrey, Arua, Uganda

 “A hunter who has only one arrow does not shoot without aiming carefully”


Sent by Ayandeji Kamoru and Davis Fuko, both in Nigeria


 “Living by the lake side doesn't mean plates full of fish”
A Baganda proverb from Uganda sent by Jelani Michael, Nairobi, Kenya

     “The absence of knowledge is the absence of light”

A Somali proverb sent by Mohamed Hussein in London, UK
  
    “A baby goat’s tail sweeps where it sleeps”

A Swahili proverb sent by Kusiima Bagoes Julius Atenyious in Wakiso, Uganda

Where there are trees, there are no builders

A Swahili proverb sent by Layla, South Africa

  Dogs do not actually prefer bones to meat; it is just that no-one ever gives them meat

An Akan proverb from Ghana and Ivory Cost sent by Aminu Gamawa, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, and Isaac Owusu, Barcelona, Spain

 A flea can trouble a lion more than the lion can harm a flea  

A Kamba proverb sent by John Mbiti in Kenya 

If there are no cracks in the wall, the lizard won’t be able to get in

A Yoruba proverb sent by Bolaji in Nigeria and Oti Oteri in Chestermere, Canada

One does not pass between an elephant’s legs twice

A Chewa proverb from Malawi sent by Robert Shaba in Zurich, Switzerland

 The very thing a goat likes to eat most will give it an upset stomach
A Krio proverb sent by Umaru Fofanah, Conakry, Guinea

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