If you want to give a sick man medicine, let him first be really ill — so that he can see how well the medicine works.
More Nigerian Proverbs:
Man is like pepper -- you only know him when you've ground him.Nigerian
Someone else's legs are no good to you when you're travelling.
Nigerian
Hold a true friend with both your hands.
Nigerian
If crocodiles eat their own eggs, what would they do to the flesh of a frog?
Nigerian
If the stomachache were in the foot, one would go lame.
Nigerian
Hold a true friend with both hands.
Nigerian