African Proverbs and Quotes About Evil

Every saying in the archive filed under evil: 8 proverbs, 5 quotes, 3 short stories. None of them carries a written explanation yet — the meanings are being written over time.

They come from Nigeria (6), Angola (1), Guinea (1), Ethiopia (1) and Tanzania (1). 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 Chinua Achebe (2), Haile Selassie (1) and Bamigboye Olurotimi (1).

A few from this collection:

• A man's urine will always fall near him.
• The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
• Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Sayings here often sit under other subjects too — most often Good, Deception, Trick and Consequence.

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