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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. 

(contracted; show full)* 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.
* You cannot see the inside of a bottle through the neck with two eyes.
* The mouth which eats does not talk.

===Proverbs as stated in the BBC News website===

* "If you say that you are in a loving relationship, surely night will fall" Alpha Bah - Cardiff, Wales⏎
* "A chicken shouldn't belittling what it is picking on the ground as it is not the one putting it there. Alpha Bah - Cardiff, Wales
* “Much silence has a mighty noise” - A Swahili proverb sent by Robert Porter in Tema, Ghana
* “A house built with saliva will be washed away by the morning dew” - A Yoruba proverb sent by Afolabi Salawu and Yemiolorunsogo, both in Nigeria
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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