AFRICAN PROVERBS: On Money, Wealth, Riches and Poverty

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1. Make some money but don’t let money make you. ~ Tanzania
2. Poverty is slavery. ~Somalia
3. One cannot both feast and become rich. ~ Ashanti
4. The wealth which enslaves the owner isn’t wealth. ~ Yoruba
5. Lack of money is lack of friends; if you have money at your disposal, every dog and goat will claim to be related to you. ~ Yoruba
6. Dogs do not actually prefer bones to meat; it is just that no one ever gives them meat. ~ Akan
7. Money can’t talk, yet it can make lies look true. ~ South Africa
8. You become wise when you begin to run out of money. ~ Ghana
9. Having a good discussion is like having riches ~ Kenya

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AFRICAN PROVERBS: On Beauty

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1. Ugliness with a good character is better than beauty. ~Nigerian Proverb

2. If there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness. ~Nigerian Proverb

3. You are beautiful because of your possessions. ~Baguirmi Proverb

4. Patience is the mother of a beautiful child. ~Bantu Proverb

5. Judge not your beauty by the number of people who look at you, but rather by the number of people who smile at you. ~African Proverb

6. The most beautiful fig may contain a worm. ~Zulu Proverb

7. It is only a stupid cow that rejoices at the prospect of being taken to a beautiful abattoir. ~African Proverb

8. There is always a winner even in a monkey’s beauty contest. ~African Proverb

9. An ugly child of your own is more to you than a beautiful one belonging to your neighbor. ~Ganda Proverb

10. If you find “Miss This Year” beautiful, then you’ll find “Miss Next Year” even more so. ~Nigerian Proverb

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AFRICAN PROVERBS: On Family.

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1. A family is like a forest, when you are outside it is dense, when you are inside you see that each tree has its place. ~ African Proverb

2. A united family eats from the same plate. ~ Baganda proverb

3. If I am in harmony with my family, that’s success. ~ Ute proverb

4. Brothers love each other when they are equally rich. ~ African proverb

5. Dine with a stranger but save your love for your family. ~ Ethiopian proverb

6. There is no fool who is disowned by his family. ~ African proverb

7. Home affairs are not talked about on the public square. ~ African proverb

8. If relatives help each other, what evil can hurt them? ~ African proverb

9. He who earns calamity eats it with his family. ~ African proverb

10. The old woman looks after the child to grow its teeth and the young one in turn looks after the old woman when she loses her teeth. ~ Akan (Ghana, Ivory Coast) proverb

11. When brothers fight to the death, a stranger inherits their father’s estate. ~ Ibo proverb

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