Creative Proverbs from African*

Creative Proverbs from the... *African Culture** (* denotes a culture rather than a country)
Background: African arts (and proverbs) include the visual, performing, and literary arts of native Africa, particularly of sub-Saharan, or black, Africa. Despite radical differences in topography, climate, economies, customs, religions and cultures, this region share many proverbs.

Proverbs from the African* Culture

	If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
	If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.
	Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
	Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
	When elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers.

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