African proverbs.

If the Chameleon was a talkative, the Snake would have known the secret of changing colours.

Any money that comes with the wind goes with the dust.

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You can’t ask the yam to grow in a day because you are hungry.

Everything has time and season.

The man with catarrh can’t search for a he-goat because he has lost the delicate sense organ for the search.
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The household that pounds yam noisily always think that the silent ones don't eat.
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When you find a dead goat in a yam barn, then it never died of hunger.

“No one goes to the native doctor to find out why he is doing well in life”

~ Chief Pete Edochie

"A man who has problems with a hunter must avoid going to the forest alone"

A trap that is meant for a rat cannot catch a cat, because a cat doesn’t move like a rat.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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"The tiger that uses the bell as a necklace will starve to death."

It doesn't matter what we want.
Once we get it, then we want something else.
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