Nigeria: Igbo Proverbs Made Easy

25 May 2014

I must commend our author, Loolo Florence Chinyere Duru, for her deep interest in the Igbo language and its proverbs. Proverbs are the wisdom of a people in a nutshell.

Complex stories and situations are concentrated in a few words and phrases which capture and retain the essential meaning of the experiences from which they derive. As the author points out, we cannot fully or properly understand these proverbs if we are not schooled in the traditional life and thought of the Igbo people who invent and use them.

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