Your companion’s burden is a load of kapok.
More Swahili Proverbs:
One who stores half grown fruit eats it rotten.Swahili
The Iabour of childbirth is known to the mother.
Swahili
He who likes to eat cows hump will not fail to grow fat.
Swahili
The gratitude that bees receive is the smoke that people use to expel them and get at their honey.
Swahili
Scabics are given to him who has no fingernails.
Swahili
Bribery is the enemy of justice.
Swahili