From: Akan, West Africa
Source: Akan (Ashanti, Ghana) proverb; listed in "Ashanti Proverbs from Ghana" (Discourse proverb collection, University of California, Los Angeles: dcl.sscnet.ucla.edu), which gives the English only, with no explanation. Earlier recorded here as Amharic (Ethiopia); no source was found giving it as Amharic.
The meaning given here is our own reading. Other interpretations exist.