Today’s African Proverb (5.17.12)
17 May 2012, by DailyLifelines
A gentle word sends the sword back into the scabbard. (Nigeria-Igbo) 
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Today’s African Proverb (5.15.12)
15 May 2012, by Hodari
A whistle will not call back a dog that has escaped from the leash. (West Africa) 
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Today’s African Proverb (5.12.12)
12 May 2012, by DailyLifelines
You do not become a chief simply by sitting on a big stool. (Ghana) 
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Today’s African Proverb (5.10.12)
10 May 2012, by DailyLifelines
Where food is free, many will come. (Yoruba) 
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Today’s African Proverb (12.30.11)
30 December 2011, by DailyLifelines
The day one learns laziness is the day one should learn to endure a painfully empty stomach. (Benin, Nigeria, Togo- Yoruba) 
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Today’s African Proverb (12.29.11)
29 December 2011, by DailyLifelines
The wealth of the greedy ultimately goes to the community. (Ghana) 
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Today’s African Proverb (12.28.11)
28 December 2011, by DailyLifelines
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 (10.8.11)
8 October 2011, by DailyLifelines
He who needs a thing has to go and find it. (Ghana- Twi) 
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Today’s African Proverb (6.5.11)
5 June 2011, by DailyLifelines
Even the Niger River must flow around an island. (West Africa- Hausa)
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Today’s African Proverb (5.26.11)
26 May 2011, by DailyLifelines
Loving someone that does not love you is like loving the rain that falls in the forest. (West Africa) 
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Today’s African Proverb (11.25.10)
25 November 2010, by DailyLifelines
The one-eyed man does not thank God until he sees a blind man. (West Africa, Fulani)
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Today’s African Proverb (11.1.10)
1 November 2010, by DailyLifelines
He is speaking Twi but he has not forgotten that Ewe is his mother tongue. (West Africa)
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Today’s African Proverb (10.11.10)
11 October 2010, by DailyLifelines
The crab says that when you see it walking clumsily it does not mean that it has lost its way. (West Africa)
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