African Proverbs About Consequence
9 African sayings about consequence — 7 proverbs, 2 short stories.
About these consequence sayings
Every saying in the archive filed under consequence: 7 proverbs, 2 short stories. None of them carries a written explanation yet — the meanings are being written over time.
They come from Nigeria (2), Angola (1) and Ghana (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 William H Barker (2).
A few from this collection:
- A man's urine will always fall near him.
- A doctor who invoked a storm on his people cannot prevent his house from destruction.
- If all seeds that fall were to grow, then no one could follow the path under the trees.
Sayings here often sit under other subjects too — most often Fable, Evil, Trouble and Tree.
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