African Quotes About Education

Every saying in the archive filed under education: 3 proverbs, 20 quotes. None of them carries a written explanation yet — the meanings are being written over time.

They come from Nigeria (11), South Africa (3), Liberia (2), Egypt (2) and Sierra Leone (1).

Named writers and speakers on this subject include Chinua Achebe (7), Nelson Mandela (3) and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (2).

A few from this collection:

• Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
• She who does not yet know how to walk, cannot climb a ladder.
• Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

Sayings here often sit under other subjects too — most often Women, Art, Leadership, Literature and Knowledge.

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