Learned Your Lesson African Proverbs
The African culture expresses lessons learned through wisdom in Proverbs. This is why African proverbs express the timeless wisdom of African people.
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African proverbs are common to all languages; proverbs are the daughters of daily experience.
Learned Your Lesson African Proverbs
A person who does not bathe must know it of himself that he is dirty - Nigerian proverb
A person who wants you out of their home will not tell you, Get out- Swahili proverb
He who conceals his disease cannot expect to be cured- Ethiopian proverb
He who is courteous is not a fool- Nigerian proverb
Instruction in youth is like engraving in stone - Liberian proverb
Everything that flies is not good to eat. - African Proverb
You need not look after the hoofs of dead goats. - Nigerian Proverb
The sun rises whether the cock crows or not. - African Proverb
If you go through the high grass where the elephant has already gone through, you don’t get wet with dew. - African Proverb
A person gets used to behaving like their name. – Igbo Proverb
Almost does not fill a bowl. - Nigerian proverb
The person who waits for a perfect opportunity will wait a lifetime. - African Proverb
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