Category Archive: Proverbs

Kanuri Proverbs

Hope is the pillar of the world. You cannot handle fire with your hands.

Hausa Proverbs

Abundance will make cotton pull a stone. Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit. Even silence speaks. Even sugar itself may spoil a good dish. Even the Niger river must flow around an island. Every fault is laid at the door of the hyena, but it does not steal a bale of cloth. …

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Annang Proverbs

A razor may be sharper than an ax, but it cannot cut wood.

Bassa Proverbs

Smoke does not affect honeybees alone; Honey-gatherers are also affected. You may grow taller, but no taller than your head.

Efik Proverbs

A person looks only on the outside of things; god looks into the very heart. His opinions are like water in the bottom of a canoe, going from side to side. Sweet and sour walk hand in hand. The attempt exceeds the ability of one, not of a multitude. You lament not the dead, but …

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