The eye is a coward. - Kalenjin (Kenya)

One person is thin porridge or gruel; two or three people are a handful of stiff cooked corn meal. - Kuria, Kenya/Tanzania and Ngoreme, Tanzania

He flees from the roaring lion to the crouching lion. Sechuana

There is no bad patience. - (Knappert, p. 46, Swahili).

God's rain falls even on the . - Fipa, Tanzania

The rainmaker who doesn't know what he's doing will be found out by the lack of clouds. Luganda, Uganda

Rising early makes the road short. - Wolof proverb, Senegal

It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal

The pillar of the world is hope. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria