African Proverbs, Sayings and Stories Website

I am delighted to discover this positive website on Africa. Please continue. I invite you to visit our African Proverbs, Sayings and Stories Website www.afriprov.org.

Please vote in the POLL on the right side on: “My favourite African Proverb of Month on animals is…” One of the choices is the African Proverb “Until the lion has his or her own storyteller, the hunter will always have the best part of the story” that is another version of the theme proverb on this “Africa Our Africa” Website.

We also have an African Story Database” that is an online, searchable, user-friendly collection of 572 African stories including folktales, historical fiction pieces, myths, parables, poems, prayers, riddles, song-proverbs and true stories. These African stories cover a wide variety of topics and occasions. The database is made of up stories containing over 140 different themes and sub-themes.

Recently a colleage and myself wrote an artcle for the September, 2009 Maryknoll Magazine called: “Why Africa Matters: Celebrating 2009 as the ‘Year of Africa’ and the beginning for Africa’s time in the universal sun”

By Joseph Healey, M.M. and Laurenti Magesa