African Proverbs and Quotes About Women
32 African sayings about women — 13 proverbs, 19 quotes.
About these women sayings
Every saying in the archive filed under women: 13 proverbs, 19 quotes. None of them carries a written explanation yet — the meanings are being written over time.
They come from Kenya (7), Nigeria (4), Ghana (3), Egypt (3) and Liberia (2).
Named writers and speakers on this subject include Wangari Maathai (5), Huda Shaarawi (3) and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (2).
A few from this collection:
- The compassion of a people is cultivated at a grandmother's knees.
- If you educate a man you educate one individual, but if you educate a woman you educate a family.
- Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.
Sayings here often sit under other subjects too — most often Justice, Marriage and Education.
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