Giant silk cotton trees grow out of very tiny seeds/ Gambia

 The frog does not jump in the daytime without reason/Nigeria

 The family is like the forest from the outside it is dense; from the

         inside each tree has its own position./Akan

 The hunter in pursuit of an elephant does not stop to throw stones at birds /Uganda

 Before you ask someone for clothes, look at the clothes they are wearing /Yoruba

 When you are eating with evil, you must have a long spoon/  Igbo

 Fowls will not spare a cockroach that falls among them/ Akan

 If crocodiles eat their own eggs, what do you think they will do to you? / Nigeria

 Rat no dey born rabbit  Nigeria

 Those who get to the stream early, swim in the clearest water / Afram 

 Many births mean many burials  (physical, ideas, proposals, etc.  making room for things) Kenya

 If you can walk you can dance, If you can talk you can sing /Zimbabwe

 God doesn’t destroy the ones you hate / Wolof

 If nothing touches the palm leaves, they do not rustle / Ashanti

 It is a fool whose sheep run away twice/  Oji

 Where you will sit when you are old shows where you stood in youth.  Yoruba

 If we stand tall it is because we stand on the backs of those who came before us /  Yoruba

When you stand with the blessings of your mother and God 

       it matters not who stands against you /  Yoruba

 You must have an understanding of death in order to live /  Busara

 Stretch your hands as far as you can reach, grab all you can grab /  Yoruba

 If you are on a road to nowhere, find another road /  Ashanti

 You must act as if it is impossible to fail / Ashanti

 Do not follow the path.  Go where there is no path to begin the trail /  Ashanti

 The ruin of a  nation begins in the homes of its people / 

        (this why the family is the first thing that true enemies attack) /Ashanti

 True power comes through cooperation and silence / Ashanti

 Two people in a burning house, must not stop to argue /  Ashanti 

 The ones who asks questions don’t lose their way / Akan 

 You must live within your sacred truth  / Hausa

 Strategy is better than strength / Hausa

 A child who is to be successful is not to be reared 

      exclusively on a bed of down /  Akan                           

 The friend of a fool is a fool -  

       the friend of a wise person is another wise person / The Husia

 The tortoise is a friend with the snail; those with shells keep their shells close together / Benin

 The river may be wide but it can be crossed / Cote d’Ivoire

 You do not beat a drum with one finger

 If you carry the egg basket do not dance

 Money can even corrupt the virtuous

 The thread follows the needle

 Do not throw away the oars before you reach the shore

 Who eats too much will be sick

 Show me your friends and I will know the kind of person you are

 Never Blame the turtle for being too slow

 The sun shines without remorse

 The sky does not discriminate what kind of birds should fly in it

  Even a bad child has his own good day

For every sister, there is a mister