Talk:African proverbs

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I don't understand why these are lumped under "african proverbs." They are each identified with a particular country. Why not list them that way in the first place? Isn't it about time we stopped seeing Africa as a single country? It's a pretty large and diverse continent.

To list all proverbs of the African continent is a disserves. How would South / North America and Europe / the East feel if they were bundled together. All nations are unique, and so the countries. It would better reflect the diversity if listed per country in Africa. Then one can also see where influences from other areas of the world come from. Africa will have a large number of links to the French, Portuguese, Indian and other languages. I am sure it would be interesting to see how a proverb was adapted, adopted etc.

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When I consider a relation to 'oak tree' of this one: "Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree." then I would write this as: "Evil enters like a splinter ([1]) and spreads like an oak tree." --82.95.107.74 16:59, 8 March 2008 (UTC)