African Proverbs About Caution

Every saying in the archive filed under caution: 23 proverbs, 1 quote. 3 of them carry a written explanation of what it means; the rest are being added over time.

They come from Cameroon (4), Nigeria (3), Ghana (3), Guinea (2) and Zambia (1). 8 have no recorded country and are shown simply as African proverbs — the archive does not guess at an origin it cannot support.

Named writers and speakers on this subject include Chinua Achebe (1).

A few from this collection:

• A hunter with one arrow does not shoot with a careless aim.
• No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.
• Fowls will not spare a cockroach that falls in their midst.

Sayings here often sit under other subjects too — most often Children.

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