Kenyan Proverbs and Sayings
47 Kenyan sayings collected from Kenya — 21 proverbs, 25 quotes, 1 short story. Including Nandi proverbs.
About Kenyan sayings here
This page collects every saying in the archive recorded as coming from Kenya: 21 proverbs, 25 quotes, 1 short story. 2 of them carry a written explanation of what it means; the rest are being added over time.
The named voices here are Wangari Maathai (25) and Gerald Wanjohi (1). The proverbs are left unattributed, because a proverb belongs to the people who repeat it rather than to whoever first said it.
The subjects they return to most often are Environment, Women, Tree, Love and Problem.
A few from this collection:
- Do not respond to a mosquito with a hammer because you will miss and hurt yourself instead.
- If a dead tree falls, it carries with it a live one.
- A lion does not eat its own cubs.
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