African Proverbs About Children
18 African sayings about children — 13 proverbs, 4 quotes, 1 short story.
About these children sayings
Every saying in the archive filed under children: 13 proverbs, 4 quotes, 1 short story. None of them carries a written explanation yet — the meanings are being written over time.
They come from Nigeria (3), Kenya (3), Ghana (2), Sudan (2) and South Africa (2). 4 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 Wangari Maathai (2), Nelson Mandela (2) and Father Lou Quinn (1).
A few from this collection:
- It's a bad child who does not take advice.
- A child is a child of everyone.
- A woman who is not successful in her own marriage has no advice to give to her younger generations.
Sayings here often sit under other subjects too — most often Women, Marriage, Love, Education and Hunger.
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