African funny Proverbs

An elderly man seated on a stool sees much further than a boy perched on a tall tree. ‘When a man is stung by a bee, he doesn’t set off to destroy all beehives’ – (Kenya). -This would have been good advice to George W. Bush after 9/11 and before Iraq. ‘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 ‘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 not 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

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