PROVERBS FROM ACROSS AFRICA

1. The anger of a penis doesn't destroy the vagina. (Zimbabwe)

2. There's no virgin in a maternity ward. (Cameroon)

3. A child can play with it's mother's breasts but not with the father's testicles. (Ghana)

4. The man who marries a beautiful woman and the farmer who grows corns by the road side have the same problem. (Ghana)

5. When you see a woman sitting with her legs open, never tell her to close dem, b'cos u do not know her source of fresh air. (Ethiopia)

6. He who says that nothing lasts forever has never tried Hausa perfume.(Nigeria)

7. If the alarm of a china phone cannot wake you, forget it, you are dead. (Lagos, Nigeria)

8. The only woman who knows where her man is every night is a widow. [Togo]

9. An erected penis has no conscience.(Uganda)

10. If u go to sleep with an itching anus, u are sure to wake up with a smelly fingers. (kenya)


Feel free to add yours..

1. Anyone who puts stew on jollof rice has trust issues.

2. He who fully unwraps a sharwama before eating it cannot keep a secret

1. no matter how d buttocks is in a hurry, it can never come to the front(9ja)
2. he who fights and run, na fear catch am(9ja)
3. do you know me, do you know me, na so hold up take start(9ja)
4. hustle make dem no use your teeth do opener for family meeting(9ja)
5. na sturbbon head make cow travel go abroad come back as cornbeef (9ja)
6. this one good that one good, na so mad man take get plenty load(9ja)
7. than for mouth wey don start to eat stop, e better say d mouth wey never start no start at all(9ja)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b0y9OMQpfc

Let me drop some famous Igbo ones to accompany the video i posted above:

1. A dead person shall have all the sleep necessary.

2. If the vulture fails to hover at the end of a sacrifice, then you know that something happened in the land of spirits.

3. If a snake fails to show its venom, little kids will use it in tying firewood.

4. The grasshopper that runs into the mist of fowls ends up in the land of spirits.

5. If a child lifts his father, his scrotum will blindfold him.

6. If one fails to lick his lips, the harmattan will do it.

7. "Our wife, our wife": come midnight and we will know whose wife she really is.

8. When sleep becomes enjoyable, we snore.

9. Whichever son is able should bury his father. The first son did not kill him.

10. A wayward woman is like the weaver bird. She uses her perch on one tree to scout other trees.

11. A man who believes that he can do everything, let him dig a grave and bury himself.

12. A slave boy is blamed no matter what he does: If he does not wash his hands, he is accused of being dirty. If he washes his hands, he is accused of wasting water.

A society that specializes in being hyper critical at the expense of progress is not enslaving others, most slave cultures are actually quite liberal.

It says more about the persons who are overly critical and unable to find joy in anything, they're most likely battling issues from their pasts which they have not come to terms with.