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Well-curated proverbs from around Africa.

i shall come for the cows after the donkeys have grown horns

interpretation - when we want to do great things in our life, we should not wait for other people to attain them for us. we should attempt doing and finally we shall succeed in the endeavor

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The African Proverb API brings you well-curated and unique proverbs unique to different regions in Africa. Not only does the API offers you proverbs in the English language, but it also in multi-African languages and interpretation.

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# API Endpoints

Get a random proverb object

GET

https://africanproverbs.onrender.com/api/proverb

              {
  "proverb": "${payload?.proverb}",
  "interpretation": "${payload?.interpretation}",
  "native": "${payload?.native}",
  "translation: ${payload?.translations[0]?.dialect}": "${payload?.translations[0]?.proverb}",
}

Get a random proverb object filtered by language or/and country

POST

https://africanproverbs.onrender.com/api/proverb/filter?filter=country

{
  "proverb": "${payload?.proverb}",
  "interpretation": "${payload?.interpretation}",
  "native": "${payload?.native}",
  "translation: ${payload?.translations[0]?.dialect}": "${payload?.translations[0]?.proverb}",
}