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African proverbs
Proverbs from all African languanges in the whole world.

== E ==
* Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.<br>It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.<br>Every morning a lion wakes up.<br>It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.<br>It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle.<br>When the sun comes up, you better start running.
** Thomas L. Friedman, ''[[The World Is Flat]]'' (2005–2006), Ch. 2, Flattener #6 (p. 137 in the 2006 edition)

== I ==
* '''If one knows thee not or a blind man scolds thee, do not become angry'''.
** [[Anonymous]] (claimed to be an African proverb by ''The Journal of Negro History, Volume I. Jan. 1916''[http://www.outfo.org/literature/pg/1/3/6/4/13642/13642.txt])

* It takes a whole village to raise a child.
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== Y ==
* '''You condemn on hearsay evidence alone, your sins increase.'''
** [[Anonymous]] quoted in ''Apropos of Africa : Sentiments of Negro American Leaders on Africa from the 1800s to the 1950s'' (1969) edited by Adelaide Cromwell Hill and Martin Kilson

== See also ==
*[[Ndebele proverbs]]
[[Category:Proverbs]]