Ghana Proverbs

Ghana Proverbs echo Akan wisdom from the former Gold Coast, home to Ashanti forest kingdoms. They value kinship, eloquent speech, and elders’ authority, offering sharp lessons on work, honor, and living together.

Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle. (Ghana Proverb)
The rich man may wear old clothes. View proverb
Ghana Proverb
The white man lives in the castle; when he dies, he lies in the ground. View proverb
Ghana Proverb
Rain beats on a leopard's skin, but it does not wash out the spots. View proverb
Ghana Proverb
A woman is a flower in a garden; her husband is the fence around it. View proverb
Ghana Proverb
When you are rich, you are hated; when you are poor, you are despised. View proverb
Ghana Proverb
Only the fool points at his origins with his left hand. View proverb
Ghana Proverb
The rain wets the leopard's spots but does not wash them off. View proverb
Ghana Proverb
When a king has good counselors, his reign is peaceful. View proverb
Ghana Proverb
If you find no fish, you have to eat bread. View proverb
Ghana Proverb
Fire and gunpowder are not bedfellows. (Ghana Proverb)
Hunger is felt by a slave and hunger is felt by a king. View proverb
Ghana Proverb
If power can be bought then sell your mother to get it. View proverb
Ghana Proverb
A child who is to be successful is not reared exclusively on a bed of down. View proverb
Ghana Proverb
A knife does not know who is its master. View proverb
Ghana Proverb
An army is driven back by courage and not by insults, however many. View proverb
Ghana Proverb
By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed. View proverb
Ghana Proverb
Death has the key to open the miser's chest. View proverb
Ghana Proverb
If the goat says it will become a sheep, there will always be black spots on its body. View proverb
Ghana Proverb
If you come near the river, you will hear the crab cough. View proverb
Ghana Proverb
If youthful pride were wealth, then every man would have had it in his lifetime. (Ghana Proverb)
When the palm nuts ripen, you carry half and I carry half. View proverb
Ghana Proverb
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden. View proverb
Ghana Proverb
One camel does not make fun of another camel's hump. View proverb
Ghana Proverb
One knows even when one neighbour's bread is in the oven. View proverb
Ghana Proverb
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