It is the boast of every juju priest that unless he dies, no thief can come and steal his juju away.
                                      ~African

It is a lazy man who says "it is only because I have no time that my farm is overgrown with weeds."
                                       ~Nigerian.

A fool and water we will go the way they are diverted.
                                    ~African.

If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing.
                             ~Zimbabwean.

Do not speak of a rhinoceros if there is no tree nearby.
                                               ~Zulu.

Abundance will make cotton wool pull a stone.
                                     ~Nigerian

A fine staff is hewn from flora in foreign lands.
                           ~South African.

The smaller the lizard, the greater the hope of becoming a crocodile.
                                 ~African.

A bush fowls' playground is never appreciably spacious.
                                       ~African.

Do not scare birds you are going to shoot.
                              ~Malagasy.

The world moves at different speeds depending on who you are.
                               ~Nigerian.

The man who is honored, has first honored himself.
                                 ~African.

If they are offered winged ants, people will eat them.
                                      ~African.

Our elders say that at sunset,  it is one's cloth that one goes to remove from the village square.
                                         ~African.

You can not built a house for last year's summer.
                                     ~Ethiopian.

A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity.
                                 ~Nigerian.

Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.
                                 ~Kenyan.

The quail waits for the stick; the idle loiterer about a place waits for a kick from an old boat.
                        ~South African.

Hold a true friend with both hands.
                              ~Nigerian.

The alcohol that is insufficient for a whole town ought not to intoxicate one man.
                                     ~African.

A man who continually laments is not heeded.
                                ~African.

Walls have ears, and little pots too.
                        ~South African.

No hill without gravestones, no Valley without shadows.
                         ~South African.

Every rope has two ends.
                                      ~Kenyan.

A farmer does not conclude his corn is ripe without opening it for close examination.
                                 ~Nigerian.

Two raindrops do not make a pool.
                           ~Nigerian.

Done in his own trade like the water merchant in the rain.
                                   ~Malagasy.

As the  wound inflames the finger, so thought inflames the mind.
                               ~African.

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

No stake grew old with the bark on.
                               ~South African.

Sorrow is like rice in an attic; you use a little everyday and at the end it is all gone.
                                  ~Malagasy.

The biting fly has no one to come to his aid in trouble.
                                       ~Ashanti.

Not to know is bad; Not to wish to know is worse.
                                  ~African.

When an elephant falls, meat is surplus for those who follow the hunter.
                                  ~Nigerian.

Discord between the powerful is a fortunate for the poor.
                                  ~African.

False ambition serves the neck.
                               ~Egyptian.

Among walnuts only the empty ones speaks.
                                       ~Moroccan.

Old age does not come in just one day.
                                      ~African.

A pelt is rolled up while it is still moist.
                                         ~African.

A bottle of oil warmed over the fire has no means of producing oil by itself.
                            ~Nigerian.

I cannot hear what you say for the thunder of what you are.
                                           ~Zulu.

No one  feels the pain that arise from unintended injury.
                                       ~African.

The habit of thinking is the habit of gaining strength.
                                     ~Nigerian.

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