Today, I want to share some of the African saying I gained from a friend of mine.
I've always loved to learn more about all of these varied culture found within the continent, as even the sayings used show they are much more closer with nature than me (as a European).
Hope you can appreciate them as well!
Advice is a stranger; if he’s welcome he stays for the night; if not, he leaves the same day.
Malagasy proverb
Wealth, if you use it, comes to an end; learning, if you use it, increases.
Swahili proverb
By crawling a child learns to stand.
African proverb
Milk and honey have different colors, but they share the same house peacefully.
African proverb
An army of sheep led by a lion can defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.
Ghanaian proverb
If the cockroach wants to rule over the chicken, then it must hire the fox as a body-guard.
Sierra Leone proverb
Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.
Bondei proverb
A single stick may smoke, but it will not burn.
African proverb
The old woman looks after the child to grow its teeth and the young one in turn looks after the old woman when she loses her teeth.
Akan (Ghana, Ivory Coast) proverb
Money can’t talk, yet it can make lies look true.
South Africa
Judge not your beauty by the number of people who look at you, but rather by the number of people who smile at you.
African Proverb