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Daily African Proverbs from AllThingsKenyan.com.

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A diviner cannot accurately divine his own future. ~Nigerian Proverb
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Does a man not know when he has pepper in his eyes? If we forget yesterday, how shall we remember tomorrow? ~Nigerian Proverb
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If you see a man in a gown eating with a man in rags, the food belongs to the latter. ~Fulani Proverb
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Popular beliefs on essential matters must be examined in order to discover the original thought. ~Egyptian Proverb
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The motherless child will suckle the grandmother. ~Bambara Proverb
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You cannot roast corn with two eyes. ~Nigerian Proverb
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Water is colourless and tasteless but you can live on it longer than eating food. ~African Proverb
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Chattering doesn't cook rice. ~Nigerien Proverb
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The bottom of wealth is sometimes a dirty thing to behold. ~Nigerian Proverb
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"Quarrels end, but words once spoken never die. ~Sierra Leone"
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"Oh you getting in between the onion and its peel, you want get anything other than its bad smell. ~Egyptian Proverb"
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A poor man with his child a rich man with his wealth. ~Swahili Proverb
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"When a woman is hungry, she says, ""Roast something for the children that they may eat."" ~Ghanaian Proverb"
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"If there had been no poverty in Europe, then the white man would not have come and spread his clothes in Africa. ~Ghanaian Proverb"
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Eat when the food is ready; speak when the time is right. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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People bring about their own undoing through their tongues. ~Egyptian Proverb
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. ~Haida Proverb
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"Dead though the oil-palm may be, the maggot in it lives on. ~Nigerian Proverb"
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Everybody joins to blame or condemn a child who overthrows the pot of soup. ~Nigerian Proverb
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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Ashanti Proverb
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