30+ African Quotes On Love You Should Know

In as much as many will want to deny it, love is a very important part of our life, be it Storge, Agape, Eros, Philia, or Pragma love. There are old African quotes on this very important aspect of our lives, love. These African quotes on love tell the stories of the depth of love as well as its various meanings. Reading between the lines of these African quotes on love, we believe one would learn one or two things about love.

Here Are The African Quotes On Love :

1. To love someone who does not love you is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall. – Congo

 

2. Pretend you are dead and you’ll see who really loves you. African proverb

 

3. The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love. Morocco

 

4. If there is cause to hate someone, the cause to love has just begun. Wolof

 

5. A letter from the heart can be read on the face. Kenya

 

6. Let your love be like the misty rain, coming softly but flooding the river. Liberia

 

7. The house of a person we love is never far. Kenya (Kikuyu)

 

8. If a woman doesn’t love you, she calls you “brother.” Côte d’Ivoire

 

9. If the full moon loves you, why worry about the stars? Tunisia

 

10. Even as the archer loves the arrow that flies, so too he loves the bow that remains constant in his hands. Nigeria

 

11. If you marry a monkey for its wealth, the money goes and the monkey remains. Egypt

 

12. A man that does not lie shall never marry. Zimbabwe

 

13. Don’t try to make someone hate the person he loves. For he will go on loving but he will hate you. Senegal

 

14. It’s much easier to fall in love than to stay in love. African proverb

 

15. Love for something makes a man blind and deaf. Suda

 

16. Love, like rain, does not choose the grass on which it falls. South Africa

 

17. Marriage is like a groundnut; you have to crack it to see what is inside. Ghanaian proverb

 

18. One who marries for love alone will have bad days but good nights. Egypt

 

19. You know who you love but you can’t know who loves you. Nigeria

 

20. Love is a painkiller. Anonymous African proverb

Random picture of matured African couple

 

21. Love doesn’t rely on physical features. Lesotho

 

22. If love is a sickness, patience is the remedy. Cameroon

 

23. If anyone makes you laugh, it is not always because they love you. Kenya

 

24. He who loves the vase loves also what is inside. African proverb

 

25. Love doesn’t listen to rumors. Ghana

 

26. A good wife is easy to find, but suitable in-laws are rare. Malagasy

 

27. If you do not travel, you will marry your own sister. Mozambique

 

28. Bread without sauce and a home without a wife are meaningless. – Ethiopia

 

29. Love never gets lost it’s only kept. African love quote

 

30. To love the king is not bad, but a king who loves you is better. Wolof proverb

 

31. When one is in love, a cliff becomes a meadow. Ethiopia

 

32. One who loves you, warns you. Uganda (Baganda)

 

33. Truth should be in love and love in truth – Swahili

 

34. One thread for the needle, one love for the heart. Sudanese love quote

 

35. Love is a despot who spares no one. Namibia

 

36. Do not treat your loved one like a swinging door: you are fond of it but you push it back and forth. Madagascar

 

37. Don’t be so in love that you can’t tell when it’s raining. Madagascar

 

38. If you are ugly you must either learn to dance or make love. Zimbabwean Love Quote

 

Hope you find the perfect African quotes on love that teaches you one or two things about love and And if you know any African quotes on love, kindly drop a comment with the African country it originates from.

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