“It is not the cook's fault when the cassava turns out to be hard and tasteless.”
A person should not always be blamed for a poor outcome when the raw materials or circumstances they were given were already flawed.
— Traditional Benin Wisdom, Benin
Source: Traditional Ewe-mina proverb, shared Benin-Ghana-Togo heritage, public-domain oral tradition (recorded as African Proverb of the Month, Dec. 2007, African Proverbs Working Group, Tangaza University)
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