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Talk:African proverbs
African proverbs are idiomatic expressions relevant to the situations and happenings discovered on the african shores. These proverbs are not just given or made base on literal work but strictly on the happenings envisaged within the vicinity of the happenings. 

To list all proverbs of the African continent is a disserves.  How would South / North America and Europe / the East feel if they were bundled together.  All nations are unique, and so the countries.  It would better reflect the diversity if listed per country in Africa.  Then one can also see where influences from other areas of the world come from.  Africa will have a large number of links to the French, Portuguese, Indian and other languages.  I am sure it would be interesting to see how a proverb was adapted, adopted etc.

== Possible correction ==

When I consider a relation to 'oak tree' of this one: "''Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.''" then I would write this as: "Evil enters like a splinter ([http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/splinter]) and spreads like an oak tree." --[[Special:Contributions/82.95.107.74|82.95.107.74]] 16:59, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

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* If you lost something and you are not worried about it, anyone who finds it won't be happy. Alpha Bah - Cardiff, Wales
* If a Blind man say he is going to stone you, then me most be standing on it. Alpha Bah Cardiff, Wales⏎
* A chick that will grow into a cock can be spotted the very day it hatches.Things fall Apart a book by Chinua Achebe
* An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
* A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness. Things fall Apart a book by Chinua Achebe
* Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
* If a child washes his hands well he could eat with kings.
* If you don't stand for something, you will fall for something.
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* “Mountains never meet but people do” - Sent by Estar Nalwanga, Entebbe, Uganda
* “If a donkey kicks you and you kick back, you are both donkeys” - Sent by Keefa Nuwahereza, in Kampala, Uganda, and Nhial Kheer, in Nairobi, Kenya
* “Even if Christ's death could have been prevented, Judas would still have been a traitor” - An Ethiopian proverb sent by Kudzai Mutizhe, High Wycombe, UK
* “No amount of rain can wash the spots off a leopard” - Sent by Dah Fritz Welbeck, in Ghana, and Zina in Nigeria