Collection of African proverbs about love and marriage, dedicated to my ladies, Nduku and Najwa…
Love doesn’t rely on physical features.
— Lesotho Proverb
Where there is love there is no darkness.
— Burundian 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
Love has to be shown by deeds not words.
— Kenyan Proverb
When one is in love, a cliff becomes a meadow.
— Ethiopian Proverb
He who doesn’t feel jealousy is not in love.
— African Proverb
A letter from the heart can be read on the face.
— Kenyan Proverb
Let your love be like the misty rain, coming softly, but flooding the river.
— Liberian & Madagascan Proverb
If love is a sickness, patience is the remedy.
— Cameroonian Proverb
He may say that he loves you, wait and see what he does for you.
— Senegalese Proverb
The best part of happiness lies is in the secret heart of a lover.
— Ugandan Proverb
Love is a despot who spares no one.
— Namibian Proverb
Many little things make a man love a woman in a big way.
— Ghanaian Proverb
A woman is a flower in a garden; her husband is the fence around it.
— Ghanaian Proverb
He who loves, loves you with your dirt.
— Ugandan Proverb
The buttocks are like a married couple though there is constant friction between them; they will still love and live together.
— African Proverb
There I stood, in the rain, at the bus stop, at the 13th Street exit to the U Street Metro station; it’s dark, chilly, a bit windy; but the only thing I could focus on was the car pulling up. Behind the steering wheel was Nduku Malombe, and right then I knew, once I stepped into the car, we would be embarking on a journey that almost never happened.