Explore all the 47 inspirational African proverbs about CHILD. These motivating African wisdom will change your perspective on Child (Showing 31 - 40 of 47)

"A child who is carried on the back will not know how far the journey is."

Nigeria

"A child is a child of everyone."

Sudan

"A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which his mother puts into his palm."

Nigeria

"When you tell a child not to go outside because it's raining, and the child insists because they don't know they will get sick, let them."

Nigeria

"If you hold a child too tightly, you will hurt him, but if you free him, he will go astray."

Nigeria

"If a child knows how to wash his hands, he eats with Elders or Kings."

Ghana

"A child does not grow up only in a single home."

Uganda African Tribe Proverbs: Bantu Tribe

"It takes a village to raise a child."

Ghana

"A child does not laugh at the ugliness of his mother."

Ghana

"A child's lie is like a dead fish in a pond that in the end, always comes to the surface, explains his mother."

Kenya African Tribe Proverbs: Luo Tribe