Yam Proverbs

One takes care of one's own: when a bachelor roasts yam, he share's it with his sheep. (Yoruba Proverb)
A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which his mother puts into his palm. View proverb
African Proverb
A child's hand is not burned by hot yam which is placed into his palm by his mother. View proverb
African Proverb
When the mother goat breaks into the yam store her kid watches her. View proverb
Ibo Proverb
When a yam doesn't grow well, we don't blame it; it is because of the soil. View proverb
Tshi Proverb
When you plant a yam it produces another yam. View proverb
African Proverb
A strong man is remembered on the day of the fight, and a gluttony on the day pounded yam is surplus. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
When a soup is unpalatable, and the paste of the pounded yam that goes with it is not smooth, that is the time to know a man who loves to eat pounded yam. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
If one would not eat pounded yam for its own sake, one can still eat it for the sake of the soup that goes with it. View proverb
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. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
Great haste breaks the yam tuber. (Kikuyu Proverb)
When the mother goat breaks into the yam store her kid watches her. View proverb
African Proverb
A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam. View proverb
African Proverb