African Proverbs and Their Meanings

A tree that does not know how to dance will be taught by the wind.

• Meaning: It is your condition that determines how you live.

The Eagle said "since men have learnt to shoot without missing, he had also learned how to fly without perching"

• Learn to avoid your enemies by all means

Until death do apart, the tortoise shell will ever remain with the tortoise

• Despite human and animal dies, yet God had created some things to last long