1999 African Proverb of the Month
- Dec. 1999: ” The wasp says that several regular trips to a mud pit enables it to build a house.” – Ewe (Benin, Ghana and Togo) Proverb
- Nov. 1999: “One who bathes willingly with cold water doesn’t feel the cold.” – Fipa (Tanzania) Proverb
- Oct. 1999: “The bush in which you hide has eyes.” – Gusii (Kenya) Proverb
- Sep. 1999: “If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman you educate a family (nation).” – Fanti (Ghana) Proverb
- Aug. 1999: “When the bag tears, the shoulders get a rest.” Twi (Ghana) Proverb
- Jul. 1999: “Better a curtain hanging motionless than a flag blowing in the wind.” – Swahili (Eastern and Central Africa) Proverb
- Jun. 1999: “When an enemy digs a grave for you, God gives you an emergency exit ” – Kirundi (Burundi) Proverb
- May 1999: “The “hurry-hurry” person eats goat; the one who takes his or her time (or hesitates) eats beef. ” – Sesotho (Lesotho and South Africa) Proverb
- Apr. 1999: “One person is thin porridge or gruel; two or three people are a lump (handful) of ugali (stiff cooked meal/flour from sorghum or millet). – Kuria (Tanzania and Kenya) Proverb
- Mar. 1999: “Let the guest come so that the host or hostess may benefit (get well).” – Swahili (Eastern and Central Africa) Proverb
- Feb. 1999: “One who enters the forest does not listen to the breaking of the twigs in the brush. ” – Bemba (Zambia) Proverb
- Jan. 1999: “By persevering the egg walks on legs. ” – Oromo (Ethiopia)Proverb