Polls

• The road to peace is not far. (-Gambia)
• Every animal eats where it finds peace. (-Ghana)
• A day of peace in times of stress is like a thousand days in paradise. (-Nigeria)
• The value of peace is never known until the peace is disturbed. (-Sierra Leone)
• If a person loves peace, it does not make her or him a coward. (-Nigeria)

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• What you do not know, you will not recognize. (-Burundi)
• Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested. (-Guinea)
• To one who does not know, a small garden is a forest. (-Nigeria)
• To learn and to be able is better than begging. (-West Africa)
• A hunter has no mysterious notions about the forest. (-Mozambique)
• If you know only one tune you cannot dance all night. (-Malawi)

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• All of the justice in the world isn't fastened up in the courthouse. (US- Black Communities)
• If chickens were judges, cockroaches would be sentenced. (Jamaica)
• Justice becomes injustice when it makes two wounds on a head which only deserves one. (Angola, DRC)
• People may pass judgment without knowing the truth; God always renders punishment because God knows the whole truth. (Ethiopia)
• You don’t expect to win a case in someone else’s village. (Zambia)

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• A woman's clothes are the price her husband pays for peace. (Central Africa)
• If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman you educate a nation. (Ghana
• Where a woman is not, the feast is not tasty. (Ethiopia)
• Women are the best promoters of the young fruit of the lemon tree. (Ghana)
• A female tongue gets things more easily than a strong man. (Ghana)

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• Truth tellers make no mistake. (Ghana)
• A lonely truth can be brought down by a pack of lies. (Mali)
• Truth is not afraid of the gun. (Ghana)
• Whereas a liar takes one thousand years to go on a journey, the one who speaks the truth follows and overtakes the liar in a day. (Ghana)
• Truth came to market but could not be sold; however, we buy lies with ready cash. (Ghana)

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• The strong don't need clubs. (Senegal)
• One blow will not knock a strong man down. (Niger, Nigeria)
• The strength of the palm tree is in its branches. (Ghana)
• The strength of one person only does not go far. (Yoruba)
• He who torments another only teaches him to strengthen himself. (Yoruba)
• That which strength fears is hunger. (Ghana)

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• The penis comes erect as if it intends to kill, but the vagina swallows and tames it. (Nigeria)
• If you want sex while traveling, travel with your wife. (Mali)
• A fresh vagina wakes up a weak penis. (Ghana)
• Lovers do not hide their nakedness. (Congo)
• Better a short penis, than sleeping alone. (Cote d'Ivoire)

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• Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle. (Ethiopia)
• If you are clever, you say good morning to the cook. (Ghana)
• Before you ask a man for clothes, look at the clothes that he is wearing. (Nigeria)
• If you are taller than your father, that does not make you his peer. (Malawi)
• If you find them worshipping a donkey, bring them grass. (Morocco)
• The fingers of the man who has lost one are not counted in his presence. (Yoruba)

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• To be smiled at is not to be loved. (Kenya)
• Love does not rely on physical features. (Lesotho)
• He who loves you, loves you with your dirt. (Uganda)
• If I have decided to love somebody, I oblige myself to be patient with him/her. (Tanzania)
• Love has to be shown by deeds not words. (Kiswahili)
• Dogs don't love people, they love the place where they are fed. (Burundi)

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• Patience makes a marriage succeed. (Ghana)
• Before you marry keep both eyes open; after marriage shut one. (Jamaica)
• Too much talk breaks marriage. (Kenya)
• One who marries for love alone will have bad days but good nights. (Egypt)
• If a marriage is sweet or if it is bitter, it is the one who is married who can tell. (Ghana)

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• When the truth is missing, proverbs are used to discover it. (Yoruba)
• A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. (Ethiopia)
• When the occasion arises, there is a proverb to suit it. (Rwanda)
• Proverbs are the daughters of experience. (Sierra Leone)
• A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. (Yoruba)

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• Appearance
• Content
• Authenticity
• Ease of Use
• Resources
• Something different
• Nothing

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• If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. (-West Africa)
• It takes a whole village to raise a child. (-West Africa)
• When elephants fight, the grass gets hurt. (-Central, East Africa)
• I am because we are. (-Southern Africa)

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• The fool speaks, the wise man listens. (-Ethiopia)
• If you can walk, you can dance, if you can talk, you can sing. (-Zimbabwe)
• It is the chef who knows the contents of the pot the best. (-South Africa)
• When the bush is on fire, the antelope ceases to fear the hunter's bullet. (-Nigeria)
• The one-eyed man does not thank God until he sees a blind man. (-Nigeria)
• A fool is a wise man's ladder. (-South Africa)

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• Don’t mistake a short man for a boy. (-Nigeria)
• If you are ugly, you must learn to dance or to make love.
• He who has diarrhea knows the direction of the door without being told. (-Uganda)
• It is okay for a child to play with the mother’s breasts, but not the father’s testicles. (-Guinea)
• There’s no virgin in a maternity ward. (-Cameroon)

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