If hunger forces a farmer in a particular year to eat both his yam tubers and the seed-yams, the succeeding years would still be worse because he would have no yams to eat and none to plant. (Nigerian Proverb) - More Nigerian Proverbs...
One cannot go back to the farmer from whom one borrowed seed-yams to plant to say that the beetles have eaten up the seed-yams. (Nigerian Proverb) - More Nigerian Proverbs...