❝ If You Want to Go Fast, Go Alone. If You Want to Go Far, Go Together ❞ African Proverb Rev. Joseph Healey, the listed moderator of AFRIPROV.org. Healey lives in Nairobi. He has been doing missionary work in East Africa for fifty years, and, it seems, collecting African proverbs for several decades at least. and he replied : Originally this proverb [is] from Burkina Faso. So, yes, it is [an] African Proverb. Typical of important African proverbs it has equivalents in other

Rain does not fall on one roof alone which is a metaphor to demonstrate that when you think that you have the worst life among all, you nee

African Proverbs ❛ It Takes a Whole Village to raise a Child ❜

❛ Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle ❜⁠ ⁠ ⁠ Meaning : It's foolish to insult anyone that you depend upon for survival. ❊ African Proverbs⁠.⁠ ⁠ Language shapes the world. It relates us to society and with those we share it with. Through language we name the things that we think that we see, our feelings. It creates, and at the same time, represents and teaches because also by using it, we learn what each thing is, how we live together, what we believe to be tru

❛ Only a fool tests the depth of a river with both feet ❜⁠ Meaning: You don’t jump straight into a situation without thinking about it firs

Language shapes the world. It relates us to society and with those we share it with. Through language we name the things that we think that

✼ African Proverb an inspirational though.⁠ ⁠❛ Don't set sail on someone else's star ❜⁠ ⁠ ⁠