You cannot win a lottery without buying a ticket.
More African Proverbs:
A man is not a man until he has a house of his own.African
If a man returns from a long journey and no one says welcome back to him he feels like one who has not arrived.
African
Whether the egg crashes on the coconut or the coconut crashes on the egg, it is the egg that suffers.
African
If you get annoyed of what you see, you blame your eyes.
African
Never let a friend lie in your sheep farm he might get hungry.
African
Two cats can never be equal; one will always be bigger than the other.
African