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A long beard doesn ot prevent a house going to bed hungry.
— Cameroon
If familiarity were useful, water wouldn’t cook fish.
— Cameroon
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No matter how hard you throw a dead fish in the water, it still won’t swim.
— Congo
Little by little grow the bananas.
— Congo
No matter how full the river, it still wants to grow.
— Congo
When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the bee’s house someday.
— Congo
Lower your head modestly while passing and you will harvest bananas.
— Congo
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Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank him for not giving it wings.
— Ethiopia
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If you pound palm nuts, some will stain your cloth.
— Ivory Coast
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Hope is the pillar of the world.
— Kanuri
A woman never brings a man into the right way.
— Kanuri
Hold a true friend with both your hands.
— Kanuri
It is forbidden to tell anything that has no foundation.
— Kanuri
Riches are the pillar of the world.
— Kanuri
If a woman speaks two words, take one and leave the other.
— Kanuri
If a man tells his secrets to his wife, she will bring him into the way of Satan.
— Kanuri
Wisdom is not in the eye, but in the head.
— Kanuri
It is the heart that carries one to hell or to heaven.
— Kanuri
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Do not fill your basket with useless shells of coconuts.
— Kenya
When the date crop is over, everyone mocks at the palm tree.
— Kenya
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Every raisin contains a pip.
— Libya
A mad dog bites anything but himself.
— Libya
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It is the softness of the lime that is fatal to the bird.
— Madagascar
Even the bottom of a basket finds something to hold.
— Madagascar
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A good day is that in which to lay by cold porridge.
— Malawi
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A stone from the hand of a friend is an apple.
— Mali
No matter how long a log floats on the river, it will never be a crocodile.
— Mali
No matter how much the world changes, cats will never lay eggs.
— Mali
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One can’t get beans out of wild melons.
— Namibia
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The one on whose head we would break a coconut never stands still.
— Nigeria
Where hands are needed, words and letters are useless.
— Nigeria
When the face is washed, you finish at the chin.
— Nigeria
A basket with its bottom burst is useless.
— Nigeria
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If you are building a house and a nail breaks, do you stop building the house?
— Rwanda
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If you had teeth of steel, you could eat iron coconuts.
— Senegal
What’s the use of consulting a dead person’s horoscope?
— Sengal
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A river is filled by it’s tributaries.
— Zimbabwe
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