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1. No African country names begin with the letters F, H, I, J, O, P, Q, V, W, X, or Y.

2. Africa is surrounded by water but by definition Africa is not an island because Africa is a continent.

3. The Republic of the Congo is one of the most urbanized countries in Africa.

Fatherly Love African Proverbs

African proverbs on the importance of fathers. One good father is worth a hundred teachers; fatherly love is the greatest gift given to a child.

When you follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him. ∽ African Proverb

Fatherly Love African Proverbs. African proverbs, fatherly love is the greatest gift given to a child. 

Fatherly love African proverbs teach us love holds a child tight, supports the soul and teaches how to love the world in return. African proverbs on the importance of fathers in a child’s emotional and social development set the stage for the path followed by the child later in life.

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When you follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him. - African Proverb

Hold a child with both hands. ∽ African Proverb

Hold a child with both hands. - African Proverb

Father with his baby in the village of Ngon, Ebolowa District, Cameroon.

Learning expands great souls. - African Proverb

Ethiopia father and son

If a child washes his hands he could eat with kings. ∽ African Proverb

Imvepi Refugee Settlement in Arua District, Northern Uganda

Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. - African Proverb

A father and his children in Mukono Uganda.

Nobody is born wise. - African proverb

Fathers love with eternal bottomless love.

A person is a person because of other persons - African Proverb

Ten additional fatherly love quotes and African proverbs we love.

In the king, there is the father.

Skill is stronger than strength.

Our mothers give to our spirit heat, our fathers light.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

Like the air, the water, and everything else in 5the world, the heart too rises the higher the warmer it becomes.

Lions are not frightened by cats.

Love is the father of love.

Old heads will not suit young shoulders.

One good father is worth a hundred teachers.

People throw stones only at trees that have fruit on them.


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Fathers love with eternal bottomless love. - African Proverb

Africa is surrounded by water but is not an island, here are a few African Island facts.

Madagascar is the 4th large island in the world and is located in the Indian Ocean supporting a unique biology, about 90% of its plants and animals are found nowhere else on earth.

Composed of 155 islands, Seychelles is Africa's smallest country. By far the largest island is Mahe, home to about 90% of the population and the site of its capital city of Victoria.

Cabo Verde has a strategic location 310 miles or 500 km from the west coast of Africa near major north-south sea routes; important communications station; important sea and air refueling site.

Africa is surrounded by water but by definition Africa is not an island because Africa is a continent. Continents can not be considered islands because of their size and also by historic definition since many people who study geography define islands and continents as two different things.

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