Famous Proverbs / Nigerian Proverbs
Nigerian Proverb: "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."
 Because | Farmer | Forces | Hunger |
| None | Particular | Plant | Seedyams |
| Still | Succeeding | Tubers | Worse |
| Yams | Year | Years |