African Proverbs on Mothers (21 Proverbs)
- Your mother is the bodyguard of your father.
(African Proverb)
- You cannot hear a baby cry in the mother's womb.
(African Proverb)
- Where your mother is born, you can't call anyone a child.
(African Proverb)
- When the mother monkey leaves her baby to fall, one must not blame the dried branch.
(African Proverb)
- When a mother has twins she must sleep on her back.
(African Proverb)
- When a child is asleep a mother's attention is on the child's stomach.
(African Proverb)
- The madman, who throws a stone into a crowded market, forgets that his own mother could be hit by his madness.
(African Proverb)
- He who has not traveled widely thinks that his mother is the best cook.
(African Proverb)
- Every frog is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.
(African Proverb)
- A lamb takes after its mother.
(African Proverb)
- The eggshell cannot be a mother of its resultant offspring.
(African Proverb)
- A father voodoos with his son and a mother voodoos with her daughter.
(African Proverb)
- It takes a breast for a child to know it's mother and it takes a mother for a child to know its father.
(African Proverb)
- A child's hand is not burned by hot yam which is placed into his palm by his mother.
(African Proverb)
- If a mother steals with a child stripped in the back what do you expect of the child.
(African Proverb)
- A child who protested when being stripped on the back by its mother, it's humbled by the scorching sun when left to walk.
(African Proverb)
- A child doesn't breast-feed from a stepmother if its mother is still alive.
(African Proverb)
- A child doesn't belong to the father or mother; a child belongs to the ancestors.
(African Proverb)
- The calf is not afraid of the mother's horns.
(African Proverb)
- He whose mother is naked is not likely to clothe his aunt.
(African Proverb)
- Repetition is the mother of knowledge.
(African Proverb)
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