What beats you is what teaches you.
More Swahili Proverbs:
He who eats another mans food will have his own food eaten by others.Swahili
If the palmwine tapper is praised, he dilutes the palm-wine with water.
Swahili
Where it slopes down is where it slopes up.
Swahili
When a plate is covered, its contents are hidden.
Swahili
Where there are experts there will be no lack ot learners.
Swahili
When the head of the family dies, that family breaks up.
Swahili