The bush fowl saw the chicken being carved up and laughed. The chicken told the bush fowl to stop laughing. For the same hands now carving up the chicken would be used to carve up the bush fowl.
More Sudanese Proverbs:
The poor are excused from washing with soap.Sudanese
Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fatted ox where there is hatred.
Sudanese
Not all the trees in the forest make good firewood.
Sudanese
A big chair does not make a king.
Sudanese
That which does the cultivating is in the stomach.
Sudanese
If you are wearing shoes, you don't fear the thorns.
Sudanese