Quotes About Ibo

Onye nkuzi ewelu itali piagbusie umuaka. One of the ways an emphasis is laid in Ibo is by exaggeration, so that the teacher in the refrain might not actually have flogged the children to death.

But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also.

Among the Ibo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.