It is believed that Africa is the cradle of humanity and that the successive species of hominids and anthropoids that gave rise to human beings originated there. The theory explains that Homo sapiens originated there about 300,000 years ago and then spread to the rest of the continents. According to the Greek historian Herodotus (484 BC), a Phoenician expedition under the auspices of Pharaoh Necho II (616 BC) circumnavigated the African continent for the first time. Africa presents an enormous ethnic, cultural and linguistic diversity, the number of languages exceeds 1300 (the number depends on the criterion of dissimilarity chosen between related varieties and for some authors it reaches 2100). The cultural manifestations of the peoples of Africa are very varied and have been transmitted mainly orally. Here are 70 proverbs and sayings of African peoples.