The proverb “Love is Blind” is attributed to many sources including Africa. Here are many more interesting and thought provoking African proverbs about love.
The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love. ~Moroccan Proverb
True love means what’s mine is yours. ~African Proverb
Love is like a baby: it needs to be treated tenderly. ~Congolese Proverb
The cabin of a loved one is never too far away. ~Bantu Proverb
He who doesn’t feel jealousy is not in love. ~African Proverb
You know who you love, but you can’t know who loves you. ~Nigerian Proverb
Love and let the world know, hate in silence. ~Egyptian Proverb
If love is torn apart you cannot stitch the pieces together again. ~Malagasy Proverb
Let your love be like the misty rain, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Liberian & Madagascan Proverb
Perhaps you do not understand me because you do not love me. ~African Proverb
Love is like young rice: transplanted, still it grows. ~Malagasy Proverb
It’s better to fall from a tree and a break your back than to fall in love and break your heart. ~African Proverb
When an only kolanut is presented with love, it carries with it more value than might otherwise be associated with a whole pod of several kolanuts. ~Nigerian Proverb
Love for something makes a man blind and deaf. ~Sudanese Proverb
A fish and bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
One who marries for love alone will have bad days but good nights. ~Egyptian Proverb
To be able to love other people you must be able to love yourself. ~African Proverb
Lovers do not hide their nakedness. ~Congolese Proverb
Love is a painkiller. ~African Proverb
Love never gets lost it’s only kept. ~African Proverb
If the full moon loves you, why worry about the stars? ~Tunisian Proverb
If anybody makes you laugh, it is not always because he loves you. ~Kikuyu Proverb
If love is a sickness, patience is the remedy. ~Cameroonian Proverb
Don’t be so much in love that you can’t tell when it’s raining. ~Malagasy Proverb
A loved one has no pimples. ~Kenyan Proverb
Love is like cough you can’t hold it back. ~African Proverb
The path leads towards loved ones not thorns. ~African Proverb
Why take away something by force which you can obtain by love. ~African Proverb
Coffee and love taste best when hot. ~Ethiopian Proverb
Loving someone that does not love you is like loving the rain that falls in the forest. ~African Proverb
Love is better than a whip. ~Nigerian Proverb
He who loves the vase loves also what is inside. ~African Proverb
Don’t try to make someone hate the person he loves, for he will still go on loving, but he will hate you. ~Senegalese Proverb
To love that one who never loves you is like rain falling in the forest. ~African Proverb
To love someone who does not love you, is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall. ~Congolese Proverb
When one is in love, a cliff becomes a meadow. ~Ethiopian Proverb
Love is just like rice — plant it elsewhere and it grows. ~Malagasy Proverb
Brothers love each other when they are equally rich. ~African Proverb
Do not treat your loved one like a swinging door: you are fond of it but you push it back and forth. ~Madagascan Proverb
Pretend you are dead and you will see who really loves you. ~African Proverb
He who loves, loves you with your dirt. ~Ugandan Proverb
Talking with one another is loving one another. ~Kenyan Proverb
The one who loves an unsightly person is the one who makes him beautiful. ~Ganda Proverb
He may say that he loves you, wait and see what he does for you. ~Senegalese Proverb
It is difficult for two long-nosed lovers to kiss. ~African Proverb
The best part of happiness lies is in the secret heart of a lover. ~Ugandan Proverb
Even as the archer loves the arrow that flies, so too he loves the bow that remains constant in his hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
There is no physician who can cure the disease of love. ~African Proverb
To love the king is not bad, but a king who loves you is better. ~Wolof Proverb
Don’t look into the eyes of your lover, or you will see what he has told many women before. ~African Proverb
Where there is love there is no darkness. ~Burundian Proverb
If there is cause to hate someone, the cause to love has just begun. ~Wolof Proverb
It’s much easier to fall in love than to stay in love. ~African Proverb
It is better to be loved than feared. ~Proverb from Senegal & Sierra Leone
Happiness requires something to do, something to love and something to hope for. ~Swahili Proverb
Let your love be like drizzle: it comes softly, but still swells the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
Love is a despot who spares no one. ~Namibian Proverb
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manex spicklez said: we the best when it come to provebs.luv africa
Anonymous said: love is angry; you feel but some one who doesn’t love you does n’t fall
sara j. lee said: I am writing a book of my memoirs about love and relationships over my life time. Everyone has their own story to tell…however…our wise ancestors said it all before. Thank you so much for this page. Very therapeutic…joyous to tap into our amazing history…long before Columbus. Hotep…