African Proverbs About Knowledge

Every saying in the archive filed under knowledge: 17 proverbs, 7 quotes, 1 short story. None of them carries a written explanation yet — the meanings are being written over time.

They come from South Africa (2), Egypt (2), Guinea (2), Nigeria (2) and Kenya (1). 10 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 Naguib Mahfouz (2), Nelson Mandela (1) and Gerald Wanjohi (1).

A few from this collection:

• A fool looks for dung where the cow never browsed.
• A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
• A hippopotamus can be made invisible in dark water.

Sayings here often sit under other subjects too — most often Wisdom, Fool, Education, Age and Love.

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