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"L'enfant qui n'écoute pas grandit dans l'amertume." — French 🇨🇲

The child who doesn't listen grows up in bitterness.
Wisdom isn't invented. It's received.

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#ProverbOfTheDay #AfricanWisdom #Cameroon

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"الكلام يجر الكلام" — Arabic 🇩🇿

Words pull more words.
A whisper becomes an argument becomes a war. You won't always be the one who closes the door.

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#ProverbOfTheDay #AfricanWisdom #Algeria

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"من قال لا أدري فقد أفتى" — Arabic 🇲🇦

He who says 'I do not know' has given an answer.
Three honest words, worth more than a thousand confident guesses.

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#ProverbOfTheDay #AfricanWisdom #Morocco

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"Quem cabra é, ka cuda ta passa." — Crioulo 🇨🇻

He who is a goat does not pretend to pass for a sheep.
Honesty about yourself is the first peace.

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"Nyatefe nye gbedoxo." — Ewe 🇹🇬

Truth is a sanctuary.
The truthful sleep easily. The liar never quite rests.

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"Mɛ mawu yi mɛ na wa nu." — Fon 🇧🇯

Only the one who walks knows the road.
Theory is not knowledge. Experience is.

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"Bolokurun kelen tɛ se ka bɛlɛ ta." — Bambara 🇲🇱

One fist cannot lift a stone.
Strength is plural. Don't refuse hands.

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"Neɗɗo ko neɗɗo ngam neɗɗo." — Pular 🇬🇳

A person is a person because of others.
The Fulani echo of Ubuntu, carried across the Sahel.

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"Hakuri maganin duniya." — Hausa 🇳🇪

Patience is the medicine of the world.
The world has one cure for almost everything. It is time.

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"Mansa nene si sosi banku te." — Mandinka 🇬🇲

A king's word is heavier than the earth.
What a leader says becomes truth. Speak with weight.

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"Hurry-hurry got no blessing." — Liberian English 🇱🇷

Hurry has no blessing in it.
What's rushed rarely lasts.

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"Wan han nor de wash insef." — Krio 🇸🇱

One hand cannot wash itself.
We were built to need each other.

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"اللي فات مات" — Arabic 🇪🇬

What has passed has died.
The past can't be reopened — only relived in your head, where it keeps charging rent.

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#ProverbOfTheDay #AfricanWisdom #Egypt

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"Yi rãab a yend zẽnga." — Mooré 🇧🇫

One finger cannot pick up a pebble.
Some things require many hands.

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"Sran ti sran nzue." — Baoulé 🇨🇮

A person is the water of another person.
We are how each other survives.

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Ohun tí a bá gbìn ni a ó ka — "What we plant is what we harvest." Yorùbá wisdom on consequence 🌍 #WordsOfCulture

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Ẹni tí ó rí ejò tí ó sá, kì í ṣe ọ̀le — "The one who sees a snake and runs is not a coward." Yorùbá wisdom on discernment 🌍 #WordsOfCulture

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Bí ilé ọba bá jó, ẹwà ló bùsi — "When the king's palace burns, its beauty increases." Yorùbá wisdom on rising from loss 🌍 #WordsOfCulture

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Ọ̀rọ̀ tí a bá dùn ni a fi ń fún ọmọ — "Sweet words are what we feed a child." Yorùbá wisdom on nurture 🌍 #WordsOfCulture

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Bí a kò bá jẹ àdìẹ àná, ọ̀la kì í yá — "If we do not eat yesterday's chicken, tomorrow does not come." Yorùbá wisdom 🌍 #WordsOfCulture