African Proverb
African Proverb
happy home nigeria
To be happy in one's home is better than to be a chief. Yoruba, Nigeria
alone ashes cleaning fire join people
When making a fire people like to join you, when cleaning the ashes you are often alone
coming man toward
When a man is coming toward you, you need not say: ""Come here
money sharper tribe
Money is sharper than the sword. Ashanti tribe
man poor rich tribe
The poor man and the rich man do not play together. Ashanti tribe
counts given man
Man counts what he has refused, not what he has given
lives noises
He who lives with an ass, makes noises like an ass
double meaning phrase
There is no phrase without a double meaning
became broke ethiopia fat rich
There is no one who became rich because he broke a holiday, no one became fat because he broke a fast. Ethiopia
experience fools start wise
We start as fools and become wise through experience
home
Where I make a living, there is my home
cape ghana grow happen lion though time
Though the lion and the antelope happen to live in the same forest, the antelope still has time to grow up. - Cape Coast, Ghana
elephant flies tail though
Though the elephant's tail is short, it can nevertheless keep flies off the elephant
arguing chicken corn grain wrong
when arguing with a chicken a grain of corn is always wrong