The riverside monkey is apt to be blamed for every twig found in the river.
More Igbo Proverbs:
While the wooden idols are tormenting me, the termites are tormenting them.Igbo
An udara fruit that falls by the roadside must want to be picked up and eaten.
Igbo
When a person is not as she used to be, she does not behave as she used to behave.
Igbo
One first drives off the fox, before taking the chickens home and blaming them for straying.
Igbo
Swearing in the name of one god while at the shrine of another god.
Igbo
Criticism of the brave is behind his back.
Igbo