Polls Archive

• Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested. (-Guinea) (35%, 21 Votes)
• If you know only one tune you cannot dance all night. (-Malawi) (28%, 17 Votes)
• To learn and to be able is better than begging. (-West Africa) (20%, 12 Votes)
• To one who does not know, a small garden is a forest. (-Nigeria) (12%, 7 Votes)
• What you do not know, you will not recognize. (-Burundi) (10%, 6 Votes)
• A hunter has no mysterious notions about the forest. (-Mozambique) (7%, 4 Votes)

Total Voters: 60

• The value of peace is never known until the peace is disturbed. (-Sierra Leone) (38%, 25 Votes)
• A day of peace in times of stress is like a thousand days in paradise. (-Nigeria) (36%, 24 Votes)
• If a person loves peace, it does not make her or him a coward. (-Nigeria) (18%, 12 Votes)
• Every animal eats where it finds peace. (-Ghana) (11%, 7 Votes)
• The road to peace is not far. (-Gambia) (9%, 6 Votes)

Total Voters: 66

• It is okay for a child to play with the mother’s breasts, but not the father’s testicles. (-Guinea) (35%, 146 Votes)
• He who has diarrhea knows the direction of the door without being told. (-Uganda) (29%, 118 Votes)
• There’s no virgin in a maternity ward. (-Cameroon) (22%, 90 Votes)
• If you are ugly, you must learn to dance or to make love. (15%, 61 Votes)
• Don’t mistake a short man for a boy. (-Nigeria) (12%, 49 Votes)

Total Voters: 413

• The one-eyed man does not thank God until he sees a blind man. (-Nigeria) (29%, 12 Votes)
• The fool speaks, the wise man listens. (-Ethiopia) (22%, 9 Votes)
• When the bush is on fire, the antelope ceases to fear the hunter's bullet. (-Nigeria) (17%, 7 Votes)
• A fool is a wise man's ladder. (-South Africa) (15%, 6 Votes)
• If you can walk, you can dance, if you can talk, you can sing. (-Zimbabwe) (15%, 6 Votes)
• It is the chef who knows the contents of the pot the best. (-South Africa) (12%, 5 Votes)

Total Voters: 41

• If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. (-West Africa) (38%, 15 Votes)
• It takes a whole village to raise a child. (-West Africa) (25%, 10 Votes)
• I am because we are. (-Southern Africa) (20%, 8 Votes)
• When elephants fight, the grass gets hurt. (-Central, East Africa) (17%, 7 Votes)

Total Voters: 40

• People may pass judgment without knowing the truth; God always renders punishment because God knows the whole truth. (Ethiopia) (42%, 36 Votes)
• You don’t expect to win a case in someone else’s village. (Zambia) (25%, 21 Votes)
• All of the justice in the world isn't fastened up in the courthouse. (US- Black Communities) (18%, 15 Votes)
• Justice becomes injustice when it makes two wounds on a head which only deserves one. (Angola, DRC) (16%, 14 Votes)
• If chickens were judges, cockroaches would be sentenced. (Jamaica) (9%, 8 Votes)

Total Voters: 85

• When the truth is missing, proverbs are used to discover it. (Yoruba) (36%, 17 Votes)
• A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. (Ethiopia) (32%, 15 Votes)
• A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. (Yoruba) (32%, 15 Votes)
• When the occasion arises, there is a proverb to suit it. (Rwanda) (30%, 14 Votes)
• Proverbs are the daughters of experience. (Sierra Leone) (21%, 10 Votes)

Total Voters: 47

• Patience makes a marriage succeed. (Ghana) (48%, 31 Votes)
• Before you marry keep both eyes open; after marriage shut one. (Jamaica) (34%, 22 Votes)
• If a marriage is sweet or if it is bitter, it is the one who is married who can tell. (Ghana) (27%, 17 Votes)
• One who marries for love alone will have bad days but good nights. (Egypt) (19%, 12 Votes)
• Too much talk breaks marriage. (Kenya) (14%, 9 Votes)

Total Voters: 64

• Love has to be shown by deeds not words. (Kiswahili) (46%, 43 Votes)
• He who loves you, loves you with your dirt. (Uganda) (27%, 25 Votes)
• Love does not rely on physical features. (Lesotho) (23%, 21 Votes)
• If I have decided to love somebody, I oblige myself to be patient with him/her. (Tanzania) (18%, 17 Votes)
• To be smiled at is not to be loved. (Kenya) (14%, 13 Votes)
• Dogs don't love people, they love the place where they are fed. (Burundi) (14%, 13 Votes)

Total Voters: 93

• If you are taller than your father, that does not make you his peer. (Malawi) (32%, 29 Votes)
• The fingers of the man who has lost one are not counted in his presence. (Yoruba) (32%, 29 Votes)
• If you are clever, you say good morning to the cook. (Ghana) (27%, 25 Votes)
• Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle. (Ethiopia) (23%, 21 Votes)
• Before you ask a man for clothes, look at the clothes that he is wearing. (Nigeria) (14%, 13 Votes)
• If you find them worshipping a donkey, bring them grass. (Morocco) (10%, 9 Votes)

Total Voters: 91

• The penis comes erect as if it intends to kill, but the vagina swallows and tames it. (Nigeria) (49%, 48 Votes)
• If you want sex while traveling, travel with your wife. (Mali) (27%, 26 Votes)
• Better a short penis, than sleeping alone. (Cote d'Ivoire) (19%, 18 Votes)
• A fresh vagina wakes up a weak penis. (Ghana) (19%, 18 Votes)
• Lovers do not hide their nakedness. (Congo) (18%, 17 Votes)

Total Voters: 97

• He who torments another only teaches him to strengthen himself. (Yoruba) (36%, 21 Votes)
• The strength of the palm tree is in its branches. (Ghana) (33%, 19 Votes)
• The strong don't need clubs. (Senegal) (24%, 14 Votes)
• One blow will not knock a strong man down. (Niger, Nigeria) (21%, 12 Votes)
• That which strength fears is hunger. (Ghana) (16%, 9 Votes)
• The strength of one person only does not go far. (Yoruba) (14%, 8 Votes)

Total Voters: 58

• Truth came to market but could not be sold; however, we buy lies with ready cash. (Ghana) (37%, 29 Votes)
• 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) (22%, 17 Votes)
• A lonely truth can be brought down by a pack of lies. (Mali) (21%, 16 Votes)
• Truth tellers make no mistake. (Ghana) (13%, 10 Votes)
• Truth is not afraid of the gun. (Ghana) (7%, 6 Votes)

Total Voters: 78

• If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman you educate a nation. (Ghana (66%, 59 Votes)
• A female tongue gets things more easily than a strong man. (Ghana) (17%, 15 Votes)
• Women are the best promoters of the young fruit of the lemon tree. (Ghana) (17%, 15 Votes)
• Where a woman is not, the feast is not tasty. (Ethiopia) (16%, 14 Votes)
• A woman's clothes are the price her husband pays for peace. (Central Africa) (9%, 8 Votes)

Total Voters: 89

• Content (76%, 42 Votes)
• Authenticity (38%, 21 Votes)
• Resources (36%, 20 Votes)
• Ease of Use (22%, 12 Votes)
• Appearance (20%, 11 Votes)
• Something different (18%, 10 Votes)
• Nothing (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 55