Today’s African Proverb (1.16.12)

If a man wants to be friendly with wolves, he must first sharpen his spear.  (Niger, Nigeria- Hausa

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Today’s African Proverb (1.10.12)

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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Today’s Proverb (11.24.11)

Stolen food never satisfies hunger.  Native American (Omaha)

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Today’s African Proverb (10.6.11)

The greatest remedy for anger is delay. (Kiswahili

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Today’s African Proverb (9.27.11)

He who has named his child “stop fighting” does not make bullets.  (Ghana

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Today’s African Proverb (9.12.11)

If a fly does not get off a dead body, he is buried with it.  (Ghana

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Today’s African Proverb (9.2.11)

War has no eyes. (Swahili)

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Today’s African Proverb (8.30.11)

As the lion said, ‘I will kill your lambs and you will remember my presence.”  (Botswana)

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Today’s African Proverb (4.12.11)

To have more and more friends means to have less and less foes. (Ethiopia)

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Today’s African Proverb (3.12.11)

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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Today’s African Proverb (2.24.11)

If the fight is tomorrow, why then clench your fist today? (Burundi)

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Today’s African Proverb (2.23.11)

You are blaming the hawk, while the falcon is killing the chickens. (Kiswahili)

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Today’s African Proverb (2.13.11)

The house of the unjust oppressor is destroyed, though it should happen in distant times.  (Egypt)

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Today’s African Proverb (2.9.11)

Do not quarrel over a matter in which you are wrong.  (Egypt)

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Today’s African Proverb (2.8.11)

When your eyes are poked your grip on someone’s throat loosens.  (Ethiopia)

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