African Proverb: Most Famous African Proverbs And Saying

African Proverb: Best and Most Famous African Proverbs And Saying. 

Proverbs are the most famous literature which passes from one generation to others from Ancient Time. And African proverbs and sayings are widely famous for their beautiful meaning in short words. Here is a collection of the Most famous  African Proverbs about death, Failure, Success and LIFE. 

• Does a man not know when he has pepper in his eyes? If we forget yesterday, how shall we remember tomorrow? ~Nigerian Proverb

• The motherless child will suckle the grandmother.  ~Bambara Proverb

• Popular beliefs on essential matters must be examined in order to discover the original thought.  ~Egyptian Proverb

• You cannot roast corn with two eyes. ~Nigerian Proverb

• Water is colorless and tasteless but you can live on it longer than eating food.  ~African Proverb

• If you see a man in a gown eating with a man in rags, the food belongs to the latter.  ~Fulani Proverb

• Chattering doesn't cook rice.  ~Nigerien Proverb

• The bottom of wealth is sometimes a dirty thing to behold. ~Nigerian Proverb

• "Oh you getting in between the onion and its peel, you want get anything other than its bad smell. ~Egyptian Proverb

• A poor man with his child a rich man with his wealth.  ~Swahili Proverb

• "When a woman is hungry, she says, ""Roast something for the children that they may eat.""  ~Ghanaian Proverb"

• "If there had been no poverty in Europe, then the white man would not have come and spread his clothes in Africa.  ~Ghanaian Proverb"

• Eat when the food is ready; speak when the time is right.  ~Ethiopian Proverb

• People bring about their own undoing through their tongues.  ~Egyptian Proverb

• We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.  ~Haida Proverb

• "Dead though the oil-palm may be, the maggot in it lives on. ~Nigerian Proverb

• Everybody joins to blame or condemn a child who overthrows the pot of soup.  ~Nigerian Proverb

• "Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. " ~Ashanti Proverb

• "The surface of the water is beautiful, but it is no good to sleep on."  ~Ghanaian Proverb

• "A man who lives on the bank of a river does not use spittle to wash his hands." ~Nigerian Proverb

• "One day of rain far surpasses a whole year of drought."  ~Malawian Proverb

• "Daylight follows a dark night."  ~Masai Proverb

• "An old he-goat does not sneeze for nothing. " ~Meru Proverb

• "The more feathers a chicken has, the bigger it looks. "  ~Zambian Proverb

• Nature gave us two cheeks instead of one to make it easier to eat hot food.  ~Ghanaian Proverb

• "To seek without finding equals waste of time." ~Egyptian Proverb

• The earth moves at different speeds depending on who you are. ~Nigerian Proverb

• Great men have big hearts.  ~Ethiopian Proverb

• "Tomorrow is pregnant, who knows what it will deliver?  ~Nigerian Proverb

• An ugly child of your own is more to you than a beautiful one belonging to your neighbor.  ~Ganda Proverb

• "Do not argue with a fool, for people will not be able to tell between the two of you. ~Igbo Proverb

• "When there is on a red-hot hoe, it is not grasped. ~Bantu Proverb

• Every camel was once upon a time two years old.  ~Somali Proverb

• What is bad luck for one man is good luck for another.  ~Ashanti Proverb

• "Let your love be like the misty rain, coming softly, but flooding the river.   ~Liberian & Madagascan Proverb

• One who waits for a chance may wait a year. ~Yoruba Proverb

• "If anybody makes you laugh, it is not always because he loves you.  ~Kikuyu Proverb"

• "We mustn't confuse mastery with mimicry, knowledge with superstitious ignorance.  ~Egyptian Proverb

• A clever bird builds its nest with other birds’ feathers.  ~Zimbabwean Proverb

• All errors are amendable.  ~African Proverb

• "We mustn't confuse mastery with mimicry, knowledge with superstitious ignorance.  ~Egyptian Proverb

• "Three things cause sorrow to flee; water, green trees, and a beautiful face.  ~Moroccan Proverb

• The way a chief acts affects the entire village ~Ugandan Proverb

• The way a chief acts affects the entire village ~Ugandan Proverb

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