Africa is a continent. “African proverb” makes around as much sense as calling all proverbs of Native American tribes, modern American proverbs, proverbs from Western European philosophy currently used in the US, and their Latin American counterparts, “American proverbs”.
I found it in a book about rethinking aid to sub-Saharan Africa (Dead Aid by Dambisa Moyo). If you google the quote it’s either identified as a proverb or African proverb, so that’s about as specific as I, or anyone else for that matter, can be. But I do appreciate the concern.
African proverb
Whoops, didn’t mean to retract that. The quote is “The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”—African proverb
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Africa is a continent. “African proverb” makes around as much sense as calling all proverbs of Native American tribes, modern American proverbs, proverbs from Western European philosophy currently used in the US, and their Latin American counterparts, “American proverbs”.
I found it in a book about rethinking aid to sub-Saharan Africa (Dead Aid by Dambisa Moyo). If you google the quote it’s either identified as a proverb or African proverb, so that’s about as specific as I, or anyone else for that matter, can be. But I do appreciate the concern.