Today’s African Proverb (1.16.12)
16 January 2012, by DailyLifelines
If a man wants to be friendly with wolves, he must first sharpen his spear. (Niger, Nigeria- Hausa) 
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16 January 2012, by DailyLifelines
If a man wants to be friendly with wolves, he must first sharpen his spear. (Niger, Nigeria- Hausa) 
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10 January 2012, by DailyLifelines
When a lion eats a bad person and it is not killed, tomorrow it will eat a good person. (Zambia- Lozi) 
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24 November 2011, by DailyLifelines
Stolen food never satisfies hunger. Native American (Omaha)
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6 October 2011, by DailyLifelines
The greatest remedy for anger is delay. (Kiswahili) 
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27 September 2011, by DailyLifelines
He who has named his child “stop fighting” does not make bullets. (Ghana) 
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12 September 2011, by DailyLifelines
If a fly does not get off a dead body, he is buried with it. (Ghana) 
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2 September 2011, by DailyLifelines
War has no eyes. (Swahili) 
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30 August 2011, by DailyLifelines
As the lion said, ‘I will kill your lambs and you will remember my presence.” (Botswana) 
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12 April 2011, by DailyLifelines
To have more and more friends means to have less and less foes. (Ethiopia) 
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12 March 2011, by DailyLifelines
If you have chased a boy and he runs off, and you follow him, and when he is about to enter the porch leading to his house, he comes back and stands waiting for you, he does not do that for nothing: his father is there. (Niger, Nigeria)
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24 February 2011, by DailyLifelines
If the fight is tomorrow, why then clench your fist today? (Burundi)
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23 February 2011, by DailyLifelines
You are blaming the hawk, while the falcon is killing the chickens. (Kiswahili)
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13 February 2011, by DailyLifelines
The house of the unjust oppressor is destroyed, though it should happen in distant times. (Egypt)
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9 February 2011, by DailyLifelines
Do not quarrel over a matter in which you are wrong. (Egypt)
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8 February 2011, by DailyLifelines
When your eyes are poked your grip on someone’s throat loosens. (Ethiopia)
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