QUOTES & PROVERBS

AFRICAN

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If I have ever  seen magic,  it has been  in Africa..

– John Hemingway

It’s really beautiful.  It feels like God visits everywhere else  but lives  in  Africa.

– Will Smith

Africa changes you forever, like nowhere on earth. Once you have been there, you will never be the same. But how do you begin to describe its magic to someone who has never felt it?  How can you explain the fascination of this vast,  dusty continent, whose oldest roads are elephant paths?  Could it be because Africa is the place of all  our beginnings, the cradle of mankind,  where our species first stood upright  on the savannahs of long ago?

– Brain Jackman

Africa has her mysteries  and even a wise man  cannot understand them. But a wise man  respects them..

– Miriam Makeba

You know you are truly alive when you’re  living among lions..

– Karen Blixen

Teeth do not see poverty African proverb

When the shepherd comes home in peace, the milk is sweet.  Ethiopian proverb

Even the lion, the king (queen) of the forest, protects himself against flies.  Ghanaian proverb

Do not follow a person who is running away.  Kenyan proverb

A child is a child of everyone.  (It takes a village to raise a child) Sudanese proverb

When the roots of a tree begin to decay, it spreads death to the branches.  Nigerian proverb

Even the best cooking pot will not produce food.  African proverb

Not everyone who chased the zebra caught it, but he who caught it, chased it.  – South African proverb

The worlds of the elders do not lock all the doors; they leave the right door open.  — Zambian proverb

Do a good deed and throw it into the sea.  — Egyptian proverb

The only man I envy is  the man who has  not yet been to Africa –  for he has  so much to look  forward to.

– Richard Mullin

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