Today’s African Proverb (1.17.12)

When a needle falls into a deep well, many people will look into the well, but few will be ready to go down after it. (Guinea)

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Today’s African Proverb (12.28.11)

Make a bed for the children of other people in the place where your own children sleep. (Yoruba)

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Today’s African Proverb (9.16.11)

One is never fed by working for a person who has not requested help.  (Kenya- Gikuyu) 

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Today’s African Proverb (8.13.11)

If you are unlucky in hunting, then the animals teach you how to hunt. (Ghana- Akan)

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Today’s African Proverb (5.4.11)

If you have a lot, give some of your possessions; if you have little; give some of your heart.  (Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania- Nilotic)

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Today’s African Proverb (5.2.11)

If one tree faces the storm alone, it collapses. (Ghana)

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Today’s African Proverb (3.17.11)

He that is carried on the back must cling on.  (Tanzania)

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Today’s African Proverb (12.28.10)

Help me during the floods, I will help you during the drought. (Tanzania- Haya)

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Today’s African Proverb (12.24.10)

Charity is a matter of the heart and not of the pocket. (Tanzania- Zanzibar)

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Today’s African Proverb (12.22.10)

A pint of “help” better than a thousand pities. (Guyana, U.S. Virgin Islands)

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Today’s African Proverb (12.12.10)

If you have, give; if you need, seek. (Malawi)

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Today’s African Proverb (11.11.10)

Flowing water makes stagnant water move.  (Somalia)

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Today’s African Proverb (10.2.10)

Who gets lost in the forest takes it out on who leads him back to the right road.  (DRC)

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Today’s African Proverb (9.30.10)

Alone a youth runs fast, with an elder slow, but together they go far.  (Kenya, Luo)

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Today’s African Proverb (9.22.10)

That which did not shout for help but waited patiently died in the trap. (Kenya)

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