Saturday, July 12, 2008

African Wisdom

"When a man is stung by a bee, he doesn't set off to destroy all beehives" - (Kenya).

"The man who marries a beautiful woman, and the farmer who grows corn by the roadside have the same problem" - Ethiopia.

"A short man is not a boy" - Nigeria and "No matter how hot your anger is, it cannot cook yam" - Nigeria.

"It requires a lot of carefulness to kill the fly that perches on the scrotum" - Ghana.

"If the throat can grant passage to a knife, the anus should wonder how to expel it" - Seychelles.

"The frown on the face of the goat will stop it from being taken to the market" - Nigeria.

"An old lady feels uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb" - Ghana.

"The same sun that melts the wax, hardens the clay" - Niger.

"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there" - Uganda

"There's no virgin in a maternity ward" - Cameroon.

"A child can play with its mother's breasts, but not its father's testicles" – Guinea.

1 comment:

Just Khens. said...

Am very confused....most of them don't make sense to me!

I lke the first & second ones though!