African (Proverbs and Sayings)

African Sites:

Ethiopian Proverbs Homepage Ethiopian Proverbs Homepage: More than a hundred proverbs (in English), compiled by M. Worku. (African) http://unicorn.ncat.edu/~michael/vses/eth4000/know/prov.html Methali za Kiswahili - Kiswahili Proverbs Methali za Kiswahili - Kiswahili Proverbs: A list of Kiswahili proverbs with searching and comments options. (African) http://www.kiswahili.de/modules.php?name=SwahiliProverbs Proverb and Culture in the Novels of Chinua Achebe Proverb and Culture in the Novels of Chinua Achebe: A discussion by Jayalakshmi V. Rao. (African) http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/achebe/jvrao1.html Eusi Kwayana's Gang-Gang Eusi Kwayana's Gang-Gang: Thirty African Guyanese proverbs in Creolese with English translation and explanation. (African) http://www.inch.com/~llondon/eusi/ Methali za Kiswahili - Swahili Proverbs Methali za Kiswahili - Swahili Proverbs: Nearly 400 Swahili proverbs with English translation, from mwambao.com. (African) http://www.mwambao.com/methali.htm African Proverbs African Proverbs: Small collection, presented by The Life in Africa Foundation (in English). (African) http://www.LifeInAfrica.com/fun/proverbs.htm Kiswahili Proverbs Kiswahili Proverbs: Small collection in Kiswahili with English translation. (African) http://www.uiowa.edu/~linguist/swahili/proverbs.html African Proverbs, Sayings and Stories African Proverbs, Sayings and Stories: Africa based site with extensive collection of proverbs in various languages with explanations, book reviews, bibliography. (African) http://www.afriprov.org/ Akan Goldweights and Proverbs Akan Goldweights and Proverbs: Goldweights symbolizing proverbs. (African) http://www.fa.indiana.edu/~conner/akan/proverb.html SwahiliOnline.com: Swahili Proverbs SwahiliOnline.com: Swahili Proverbs: Swahili proverbs with English translations and explanations, with an introduction. (African) http://www.swahilionline.com/language/proverbs/provrbs.htm Motherland Nigeria: Proverbs Motherland Nigeria: Proverbs: Large number of proverbs from or popular in Nigeria (in English). (African) http://www.motherlandnigeria.com/proverbs.html Helpful African Proverbs Helpful African Proverbs: About forty proverbs compiled by musician Kane Mathis. (African) http://www.kairarecords.com/kane/proverbs.htm Swahili: Kanga Writings Swahili: Kanga Writings: Article by Hassan Ali on the proverbs and messages expressed by the patterns on kanga cloth. (African) http://www.glcom.com/hassan/kanga.html Proverb Player Proverb Player: Gambian and other African proverbs from The Gambia Resource Page. (African) http://www.africanculture.dk/gambia/Gambia-proverbs.htm