You cannot use a wild banana leaf to shield yourself from the rains and then tear it to pieces later when the rains come to an end. Nandi (Kenya)

Young growing cuttings determine a good harvest of cassava.      Tonga (Malawi)

Smoke does not affect honeybees alone; the honey-gatherers are also affected. Bassa (Liberia)

What is in the stomach carries what is in the head. Bukusu (Kenya)

A fool has many days. Tharaka, also in Gikuyu (Kenya)

A Tutsi liked to warm himself by the fire; someone else took the bull. Zinza (Tanzania)

Far is where there is nothing, where something is that you will struggle to the death to reach.      Shona (Zimbabwe)

A child (young person) does not fear treading on dangerous ground until he or she gets hurt (stumbles).      Bukusu (Kenya)

When elephants fight the grass (reeds) gets hurt. Swahili (Eastern and Central Africa)

Many hands make light work. Haya (Tanzania)

A person who does not cultivate well his or her farm always says that it has been bewitched. Kwaya (Tanzania)

Water that has been begged for does not quench the thirst. Soga (Uganda)

No matter how long a log stays in the water, it doesn't become a crocodile. Bambara (Mali)

A cockroach knows how to sing and dance, but it is the hen who prevents it from performing its art during the day. Edo (Nigeria )

A "Kachenche" (very small bird) is insignificant among strangers, but very important at home. Songe (Democratic Republic of the Congo - DRC )

An okra tree does not grow taller than its master. Krio (Sierra Leone)

God is a great eye. He sees everything in the world. Balanda/Belanda Viri, Sudanese Colloquial Spoken Arabic, Modern Standard Written Arabic (Sudan)

The brother or sister who does not respect the traditions of the elders will not be allowed to eat with the elders.      Ga (Ghana)

A person who is not disciplined cannot be cautioned. Haya (Tanzania)

The eyes of the trapper are as subject to reddening as those of the small animal (that he pursues). Ganda (Uganda)

The hyena with a cub does not eat up (consume) all the available food.      Akamba (Kenya)

I have come a long way; the journey has exhausted me. Ngoni (Tanzania)

If an arrow has not entered deeply, then its removal is not hard.      Buli (Ghana)

Do not insult the hunting guide before the sun has set.      Sukuma (Tanzania)

Even haplochromis (name of a small fish) employs tilapia (name of a large fish). Luo (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda )

How easy it is to defeat people who do not kindle fire for themselves. Tugen (Kenya)

The groin pains in sympathy with the sore.      Zulu (South Africa)

If you refuse the elder's advice you will walk the whole day. Ngoreme(Tanzania)

A tender bamboo cannot be eagerly desired (for building). Chewa (Malawi) and Nyanja (Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia)

Two bulls can't stay in the same kraal.      Tswana (Botswana)

The wasp says that several regular trips to a mud pit enables it to build a house.      Ewe (Benin, Ghana and Togo)

One who bathes willingly with cold water doesn't feel the cold.      Fipa (Tanzania)

The bush in which you hide has eyes.      Gusii (Kenya)

     If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman you educate a family (nation).      Probably a Fanti (Ghana)

When the bag tears, the shoulders get a rest.      Twi (Ghana)

Better a curtain hanging motionless than a flag blowing in the wind.      Swahili (Eastern and Central Africa)

When an enemy digs a grave for you, God gives you an emergency exit.      Kirundi (Burundi)

The "hurry-hurry" person eats goat; the one who takes his or her time (or hesitates) eats beef.      Sesotho (Lesotho and South Africa)

One person is thin porridge or gruel; two or three people are a lump (handful) of ugali (stiff cooked meal/flour from sorghum or millet)      Kuria (Tanzania and Kenya )

Let the guest come so that the host or hostess may benefit (get well).      Swahili (Eastern and Central Africa)

One who enters a forest does not listen to the breaking of the twigs in the brush.      Bemba (Zambia) 

By persevering the egg walks on legs.      Oromo (Ethiopia ) 

It takes a whole village to raise a child.      Yoruba (Nigeria)

If you have no teeth, do not break the clay cooking pot.      Chewa (Malawi) and Nyanja (Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia) Proverb

It [a bug] grows up in dry wood, and yet comes to maturity.      Gikuyu (Kenya )

The person who has not traveled widely thinks his or her mother is the only cook (the best cook).      Ganda ( Uganda )

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.      Akan and Ewe (Benin, Ghana and Togo )

I pointed out to you the stars (the moon) and all you saw was the tip of my finger.      Sukuma ( Tanzania ) 

Proverbs courtesy of Resource Centers for African Proverb Registry and Research. www.afriprov.org

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