IGBO PROVERBS
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Seeks to promote Igbo Proverbs and increase their usage thereby promoting the Igbo language and the wisdom of Igbo people for posterity. FOLLOW @IgboHistoFacts.
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Joined September 2013
When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so. - Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
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RT @IgboHistoFacts: "Ugo" the eagle represents excellence, glory, respect and honour in Igbo land. Its feathers are affixed to caps of titl…
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RT @RealOsuofia: A man who puts local gin in a Hennessy bottle may deceive onlookers, but not his own throat.
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RT @IgboProverbs_: Ọgọ bịakaria, ezie ya kpata nkụ. / An in-law who visits too often is asked to fetch firewood. [Familiarity breeds cont…
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RT @IgboProverbs_: That boy calls you father. Do not bear a hand in his death. - Chinua Achebe
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Ọgọ bịakaria, ezie ya kpata nkụ. / An in-law who visits too often is asked to fetch firewood. [Familiarity breeds contempt. Use absence to create self-value and increase respect.] #ilu
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RT @IgboHistoFacts: A dagger from the Ekumeku movement, which resisted British imperial rule in the western Igbo region for over two decade…
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RT @IgboHistoFacts: “Let the young man in his desperation go out and hunt. If he kills the elephant, his poverty ends. If the elephant kill…
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That boy calls you father. Do not bear a hand in his death. - Chinua Achebe
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RT @IgboHistoFacts: Igbo language, one of Africa's most spoken languages, is being taught at Oxford University.
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RT @IgboHistoFacts: “Anyone who says he is not Igbo is not Igbo. Igbo is not only an ethnic identity; it is also a way of life. Igbo is a…
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RT @IgboHistoFacts: On This Day in 1967: Ironsi was laid to Rest. Major Gen. J.T.U Aguiyi Ironsi was Nigeria's first Military Head of Stat…
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RT @IgboHistoFacts: January 1966 coup was NOT an Igbo coup. If this pops on your timeline, retweet 🙏
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Achụna àjà aghụghọ nye arụsi na-agwọrọ gi ọgwụ nchedo. / Offer not a deceitful sacrifice to the deity that prepares your protection portion. [Do not apply deceitful or stingy approach to things of great importance, the repercussion is severe.]
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