Wisdom African proverbs with love from the ancestors
African proverbs are popular short sayings created from ancestral insight hand down from generation to generation. Wise sayings in the language of proverbs have been passed down for generations in African culture.
African proverbs express the timeless wisdom of African people.
Explore and Understand Africa Through Her Food and Culture
12-25-2014
Wisdom with love from your ancestors
Don't put the key to happiness in someone else's
pocket.
The frown on the face of the goat will not stop
it from being taken to the market.
To wash a donkey's tail is loss of time and soap.
The disobedient fowl obeys in a pot of soup.
The person who is not patient cannot eatwell-cooked
dishes.
The past years are in moonlight, the years to
come are in darkness.
