African Proverbs About Community
20 African sayings about community — 13 proverbs, 5 quotes, 2 short stories.
About these community sayings
Every saying in the archive filed under community: 13 proverbs, 5 quotes, 2 short stories. 2 of them carry a written explanation of what it means; the rest are being added over time.
They come from Nigeria (5), Tanzania (3), Sudan (1), Kenya (1) and Mauritania (1). 5 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 Joseph G Healey (2), Chinua Achebe (1) and Desmond Tutu (1).
A few from this collection:
- If we stand tall, it is because we stand on the backs of those who came before us.
- A child is a child of everyone.
- A hand cannot wash itself. Each hand must take a turn in washing the other for both hands to be clean.
Sayings here often sit under other subjects too — most often Family, Success and Children.
Or see every subject in the archive.