COLLECTION OF AFRICAN PROVERBS: 1. An elderly man seated on a stool sees much further than a boy perched on a tall tree. 2. ‘When a man is stung by a bee, he doesn’t set off to destroy all beehives’ – (Kenya) 3. ‘The man who marries a beautiful woman, and the farmer who grows corn by the roadside have the same problem’ – Ethiopia. 4. ‘A short man is not a boy’ – Nigeria 5. ‘No matter how hot your anger is, it cannot cook yam’ – Nigeria. 6. ‘It requires a lot of carefulness to kill the fly that perches on the scrotum’ – Ghana. 7. ‘If the throat can grant passage to a knife, the anus should wonder how to expel it’ – Seychelles. 8. ‘The frown on the face of the goat will not stop it from being taken to the market’ – Nigeria. 9. ‘An old lady feels uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb’ – Ghana. 10. ‘The same sun that melts the wax, hardens the clay’ – Niger. 11. ‘If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there’ – Uganda 12. ‘There’s no virgin in a maternity ward’ – Cameroon. 13. ‘A child can play with its mother’s breasts, but not its father’s testicles’ – Guinea 14.he who sleeps with an itching anus wakes up with smelly fingers-Nigeria NI GANI INABAMBA ZAIDI???
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