African Proverbs and Quotes About Family
13 African sayings about family — 6 proverbs, 3 quotes, 4 short stories.
About these family sayings
Every saying in the archive filed under family: 6 proverbs, 3 quotes, 4 short stories. None of them carries a written explanation yet — the meanings are being written over time.
They come from Cameroon (2), Nigeria (2), Tanzania (2), Kenya (1) and Zambia (1). 3 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), Martin Jumbam (1) and Isabel Dos Santos (1).
A few from this collection:
- A lion does not eat its own cubs.
- Never fight a stranger in the dark, for he may turn out to be your brother.
- He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
Sayings here often sit under other subjects too — most often Love and Community.
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