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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.

African Proverbs Are To Speech What Salt Is To Food

African proverbs are important because they teach life lessons in short simple sayings. African proverb wisdom is not the wisdom of the schools but of the village, the farm, and the elder. African proverbs do not have meaning for people who understand learning is not based on someone’s race or class.


African proverbs are wisdom of the heart and head.

African proverbs are wisdom of the heart and head.


Essential lessons learned from African proverbs carry heavy weight in world culture. African proverbs are common African sayings used by honored ancestry. The influence of African proverbs over the hearts and lives of people was second only to the words from Spirits.


Lessons learned from African proverbs.


African Proverbs help people to cope with life and death matters by adding traditional common sense to a complex situation. Few people dare to question the African proverb truthfulness and authority. African proverbs enable people not only to win their independence but also to overcome the many trials and disappointments of life.

Through African proverbs as through African folklore, songs, traditions, rhymes, superstitions, and customs, we trace the moral and ethical development of African wisdom and learn the workings of the mind. 

African Proverbs are used to strengthen social and moral statements in debates, lectures and writings. The widespread wisdom of African proverbs has brought important social and moral messages to the people who struggle in life.

African proverbs are important in African and World culture because African proverbs are to speech what salt is to food, irreplaceable.

Proverbs from Africa contain the essence of moral truth and practical lesson drawn from real life, and the fruit of philosophy grafted on the stem of experience. Below feature sixteen African Proverbs people love and to learn from right now.


African Proverbs Are To Speech What Salt Is To Food


Like the tusk and teeth of an elephant, one set for show and another for use.

The gossip causes the downfall of a kingdom.

However strong the grain, it cannot break the cooking pot.

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

If you are filled with pride, then you will have no room for wisdom.

He does a good day’s work who rids himself of a fool.


A snake is never grateful. African proverbs people love.

To wash a donkeys tail is loss of time and soap.

He who loves you loves you with your dirt.

Unstringing the bow does not cure the wound.

The greedy advised to eat with eyes closed before children.

A snake is never grateful.

Born but yesterday and today a giant.

African proverb lesson. Beloved at home, cheap at the market.

The goat has paid with its life, yet its meat is not tasty.

A dog is brave at his own door.

Beloved at home, cheap at the market.

He who has suffered can sympathize with those in pain.


Read short folklore stories from Africa to make you fall in love with myths and legends from the motherland.
  1. Why the bunny rabbit has wiggly slits for a nose
  2. Love Takes No Less Than Everything Marriage Folklore
  3. Hunters Attack Cowards Tell the Story
  4. One Do Wrong All Get Punished
  5. Mighty Little Hedgehog
  6. Blackman and White Snake Folklore Story

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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