The Igbo proverb
Author: J. Obii J. Nwachukwu-Agbada
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
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Igbo Proverbs: a Compilation
Author: Onyekachi Ibekwe
Publisher: Henry Onyekachi Ibekwe
Published: 2021-12-26
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A selection of 1,000 proverbs in Igbo language, each accompanied by a usable English translation.
Ilu Ndị Igbo
Author: Richard C. Okafor
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9789788438120
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Philosophy of Proverbs in Igbo Culture
Author: Francis Nwonwu
Publisher: Author House
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 147
ISBN-13: 1496984196
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book is a philosophical and didactic discourse on thirty-six Igbo proverbs that center on the chicken. The chicken is used as a point of departure to illustrate the travails, vicissitudes, and triumphs people experience in life. The selected proverbs cut across many issues and teach morals that convey desirable ethical and moral standards in society.
Ilu Ndị Igbo
Things Fall Apart
Author: Chinua Achebe
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1994-09-01
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0385474547
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.
1,000 Igbo Proverbs
Author: Onyekachi H. Ibekwe
Publisher:
Published: 2017-08-07
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9781549545771
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a compilation of 1,000 proverbs in Igbo language, each followed by a usable English translation. I decided to make this compilation after much personal reflection on the remote origins and existential imports of the proverbial mode of communication. Proverbs remain vital and peculiar elements of Igbo traditional religion, daily discourse and contemporary worldview. It is my hope that this compilation will serve as a portable, easily navigable reference for anybody that has an interest in the subject matter.
Igbo Idioms
Author: Mark Uzomba Onyekwere
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2011-10-12
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1463436149
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Igbo Idioms are the ornaments and the jewelry that beautify the Igbo language and make the listeners pay great attention to any talker that uses them. Such a person is held to a high esteem. They are words of wisdom part of which intelligence is measured in Igbo land. Wat butter is to bread, Igbo Idiom is to language and a speech in Igbo that has no idiom is like soup without salt. The Igbos are known to be smart go ahead people, figuring out the meaning of idioms from infancy plays definitely a role in that.
Ilu Ndi Igbo: Suitable proverbs for different occasions translated ; similarities between Igbo and Yoruba proverbs
Proverbs in African Orature
Author: Ambrose Adikamkwu Monye
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2008-03
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780761838999
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Proverbs in African Orature examines how preliterate Africans handle oral literacy criticism of their proverbs. The study demonstrates that Africans employ literary styles and strategies in speaking their proverbs. It also shows that the notion and practice of literary aesthetics are indigenous to African peoples. In studying these proverbs, the author goes beyond mere translation or contextual analysis and employs a new empirical approach. The approach involves the researcher recording live scenes of proverb use, appreciation, and criticism by the people of Aniocha in Delta State, Nigeria. By examining the literary background and the present study, the author demonstrates that scholars have indeed recognized the need for this new approach but have not yet tried it. Monye is the first. The author also situates proverbs in the context of other African oral forms, drawing copious examples from the Anoicha Igbo people. This study and analysis reveals that Anoicha proverbs have literary value and that the people apply their folk critical canons in the appreciation and criticism of these proverbs. Proverbs in African Orature is a highly appropriate work for African Studies scholars, especially those focusing on oral literature.
