The poor man and the rich man do not play together. Ashanti tribe

A Champion bull starts from birth. – Luyia.Western Kenya

Instruction in youth is like engraving in stones. Berber, North Africa

The young can’t teach traditions to the old. – Yoruba proverb

A messenger cannot be beaten . – Luyia proverbs , Western Kenya

The haughty blind person picks a fight with his guide. – Ethiopia

Goodness gets a seat. – Igala, Nigeria. (Pachocinski, p. 224; explanation: good people will be shown favors and will live longer).

The chicken is never declared in the court of hawks. – Cape Coast, Ghana

A crime eats its own child. Sechuana

Do not tell the man carrying you that he stinks. Sierra Leone

Blind belief is dangerous. – Luyia , Western Kenya

The pillar of the world is hope. – Kanuri proverb, Nigeria

A stranger does not skin a sheep that is paid as a fine at a chief’s court. – Cape Coast, Ghana

A man who dictates separates himself from others. Somalia

He flees from the roaring lion to the crouching lion. Sechuana

Do they prepare leather [for a battle shield] the day they fight? – Zar, Nigeria

People know each other better on a journey. Plaatje

You suffer from smoke produced by the firewood you fetched yourself. Luhya, Kenya

If one is roasting two potatoes, one of them is bound to get charred. – Kikuyu, Kenya.

One does not love if one does not accept from others. – Kanuri proverb, Nigeria

That man’s a fool whose sheep flees twice. – Oji proverb

The orphan does not rejoice after a heavy breakfast. – Cape Coast, Ghana

When your mouth stumbles, it’s worse than feet. – Oji proverb

You are sitting in peace (unharmed): as the nose of a cow that feeds among thorntrees and shows no scars. Luganda, Uganda

The crows, the idle person grumbles. – Yoruba, Nigeria

That which is good is never finished. – Sukuma, Tanzania

The one chased away with a club comes back, but the one chased away with kihooto [reason] does not. – Kikuyu, Kenya

Rising early makes the road short. – Wolof proverb, Senegal

God is our neighbour when our brother is absent. – (Knappert, p. 33, Swahili)

If there is cause to someone, the cause to love has just begun. – Wolof proverb, Senegal

A sorcerer has no distinctive colour. Sechuana

We should put out fire while it is still small. – Kalenjin (Kenya)

One who is crazy for meat hunts buffalo. Luganda, Uganda

To be praised is to be lost. – Kikuyu, Kenya

The frog does not run in the daytime for nothing. – Igbo, Nigeria

With wealth one wins a woman. Uganda

It is foolhardy to climb two trees at once just because one has two feet. – Ethiopia

Water can not be forced uphill. – Kalenjin (Kenya)

He has not married a woman; for she is [the equal of] a man. Sechuana

A low-class man will just talk; deeds are the hallmark of a gentleman. – (Knappert, p. 84, Swahili)

Poverty is slavery (Somalia)

If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong.

He who refuses to obey cannot command. – Kikuyu, Kenya

When cutting, look at the age of the machete. – Fulfulde, Nigeria

Add legs to the snake after you have finished drawing it.

Do not vacillate or you will be left in between doing something, having something and being nothing. – Ethiopia

Let rats shoot arrows at each other. Sudan

The climber of ladders will descend [the ambitious person will be brought back down]. – (Knappert, p. 93, Swahili)

Where the rooster crows there is a village. -Schambala proverb

Do not follow a person who is running a way. – Kalenjin (Kenya)