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 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 (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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Today’s African Proverb (2.5.11)

Starting a war is easy.  Ending it is not. (Egypt)

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Today’s African Proverb (2.2.11)

We let him in, and now he shows us the door.  (Egypt)

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Today’s African Proverb (1.19.11)

If someone is chasing you and has not stopped, you don’t say: “I am tired of running.”  (Ghana)

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Today’s African Proverb (1.18.11)

A flea can trouble a lion more than the lion can harm a flea.  (Kenya)

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Today’s African Proverb (1.15.11)

An egg should not wrestle with a rock! (Wolof)

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Today’s African Proverb (1.13.11)

Only a goat that is tired of life, invites a lion to dinner.  (Nigeria)

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Today’s African Proverb (12.18.10)

He who finds the occasion to hurt others will be hurt by them tomorrow.  (South Africa/Azania)

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