The document contains a collection of African proverbs addressing various topics such as cause and effect, self-reliance, acceptance, disguise, cooperation, perseverance, and inevitability of change. The proverbs convey wisdom and lessons through brief, metaphorical sayings.

1. AFRICAN PROVERBS for 2011 Slideshow by Grieta Lindeque

2. Great fires erupt from tiny sparks.

3. A chicken's prayer doesn't affect a hawk

4. Evil enters like a splinter and spreads like an oak tree.

5. It is better to walk than curse the road.

6. The lizard does not eat hot chillies for the frog to sweat.

7. A snake will always give birth to something long

8. One does not love if one does not accept from others.

9. The Mouse that makes jest of a cat has already seen a hole nearby.

10. Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

11. The rainmaker who doesn't know what he's doing will be found out by the lack of clouds.

12. If you are ugly you must either learn to dance or make love.

13. Hunger touches the slave and hunger touches the king

14. That which has horns can not be concealed by cloth.

15. The path is made by walking.

16. Not everyone who chased the zebra caught it, but he who caught it chased it.

17. If you are in hiding, don't light a fire.

18. Being well dressed does not prevent one from being poor

19. Two ants do not fail to pull one grasshopper

20. Rising early makes the road short .

21. You cannot teach an old gorilla the paths of the forest

22. The length of a frog can only be determined after it dies.

23. However long the night, the dawn will break.

24. Cross the river in a crowd and the crocodile won't eat you.