African proverbs

Those who master to climb trees with their teeth are in better position to tell which barks are bitter.

When the cockroach decides to make the cock its friend it must be ready to end up in the cock's stomach.

A palm wine taper does not stop tapping palm wine because he once fell from the top of a palm wine tree.

It is a surprise that the cock should hold a grudge against the pot, instead of the knife that killed it.

If you close your eyes because of the bad people around you, you will not see the good people passing by.

In a community it's better every person to have a little of something than one person to have everything.

You can teach other people how to learn other languages but you can't teach them how to govern themselves.

Don't make a goat your friend if your skirt is made of plantation leaves, or else it will strip you naked.

The miserly man is like a fattened ox: he will give of his fat only when he has been deprived of his life.

A cock says it's because of the situation it is faced with that it has its knees in the opposite direction.

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