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Let's Have Some African Proverbs by Raypawer(m): 11:02pm On Oct 29, 2014
1. When a man is stung by a bee, he does not
destroy all beehives (Kenya)

2. The man who marries a beautiful woman, and the
farmer who grows corn by the roadside have the
same problem (Ethiopia)

3. A short man is not a boy (Nigeria)

4. No matter how hot your anger is, it cannot cook
yams (Nigeria)

5. It requires a lot of carefullness to kill the fly that
perches on the scrotum (Ghana)

6. If the throat can grant passage to a knife, the anus
should wonder how to expel it (Seychelles)

7. The frown on the face of the goat will not stop it
from being taken to the market (Nigeria)

8. An old lady feels uneasy when dry bones are
mentioned in a proverb (Ghana)

9. The same sun that melts the wax, hardens the
clay (Niger)

10. If you don’t know where you are going, any road
will take you there (Uganda)

11. There is no virgin in a maternity ward (Cameroon)

12. A child can play with its mother’s breasts, but not
its father’s testicles (Guinea)

13. He who goes to sleep with an itching anus wakes
up with smelly fingers (Nigeria)

14) A quarrelsome woman is like a house that leaks
(S.Sudan)

15. The anger of a penis does not destroy the vagina
(Zimbabwe)

16. Don't insult a Crocodile while your buttocks are
still in the water (Zambia)

Which one is your favourite?

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Re: Let's Have Some African Proverbs by tutaboi(m): 11:38pm On Oct 29, 2014
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Do not taste the depth of a great river with both legs

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