African Proverbs About Fool
13 African sayings about fool — 11 proverbs, 2 short stories.
About these fool sayings
Every saying in the archive filed under fool: 11 proverbs, 2 short stories. None of them carries a written explanation yet — the meanings are being written over time.
They come from Ghana (4), Nigeria (2), Cameroon (1), Ethiopia (1) and Botswana (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 Elphinstone Dayrell (1) and Phillip Martin (1).
A few from this collection:
- A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
- A fool looks for dung where the cow never browsed.
- By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed.
Sayings here often sit under other subjects too — most often Knowledge, Trick and Wisdom.
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