Foreword
 
Preface
 
Acknowledgements
 
About the Author
 
1. Proverbs That Teach Self-Responsibility
                              Proverb #1: If Everyone Loves You, You Will Not Know Who Poisoned You
 
 
                              Proverb #2:	If You Tell a Tree that You Will Kill It...
 
 
                              Proverb #3:	The Rat That Joins the Lizard to Get Wet in the Rain...
 
 
                              Proverb #4: 	What You’re Looking for Is What You Will Get
 
 
                              Proverb #5: 	What a Person Does Is in His Heart
 
 
                              Proverb #6: 	If You’ve Not Reached Where You’re Going, You Should Keep Going
 
 
                              Proverb #7: 	Eneke the Bird Noted That Since Men Have Learned to...
 
 
                              Proverb #8: 	Your Intelligence Is Your Handbag, and You Carry It...
 
 
                              Proverb #9: 	When a Young Man Washes His Hands Properly...
 
 
                              Proverb #10: The Lizard That Fell From the Iroko Tree Said That If...
 
 
                              Proverb #11:The Person Who Blows the Flute Must Sometimes Wipe His Mouth
 
 
                              Proverb #12:The Dog Does Not Chew the Bone That Is Hanging Around Its Neck
 
 
                              Proverb #13: If You Do Not Allow People to Know What Your Size...
 
 
                              Proverb #14: If You Pull a Tree and It Pulls You Back, You Should Leave it Alone
 
 
                              Proverb #15: If One Is Not Careful, What Destroyed His Father Might Destroy Him
 
 
                              Proverb #16: As You Make Your Bed so Will You Lie on It
 
 
                              Proverb #17: If You Try to Wrestle Down Your Father, His Wrapper Will Cover Your Eyes
 
 
                              Proverb #18: When You Chew the Dried Meat, it Fills Up Your Mouth
 
 
                              Proverb #19: You Can Cry All You Want, But You Cannot Cry Out Blood
 
 
                              Proverb #20: Where You Live Is Where You Protect	
 
 
                              Proverb #21: Money Is the Beauty of a Man
 
 
                              Proverb #22: It Is Not the Load That Breaks Us Down; It Is the Way We Carry It
 
 
                              Proverb #23: A Good Name Shines in the Dark
 
 
                              Proverb #24: A Person Who Does Not Concede Defeat Is Not a Good Sport
 
 
                              Proverb #25: A Person Who Praises the Rain Has Been Rained On
 
 
 
2. Proverbs That Teach Collaboration and Consultation
                              Proverb #1: Life Is in the Ears
 
 
                              Proverb #2: 	To Come and Eat Is Not to Come and Work!
 
 
                              Proverb #3: 	A Tree Cannot Make a Forest
 
 
                              Proverb #4: 	When Mother Cow Is Chewing Grass, the Younger Ones Look at Her Mouth
 
 
                              Proverb #5: 	It Takes a Whole Village to Raise a Child
 
 
                              Proverb #6: 	When You Wrestle Someone to the Ground, You Also...
 
 
                              Proverb #7: 	A Fool Does Not Know That His Brother or Sister Is a Visitor
 
 
                              Proverb #8: 	The Fly Without an Advisor Follows the Dead Body Into the Grave
 
 
                              Proverb #9: 	A Gathering of Kinsmen and Kinswomen Is an...
 
 
                              Proverb #10: When Two Elephants Fight, Grasses Suffer
 
 
                              Proverb #11: Laughter Is Just a Matter of Moving Back the Cheek
 
 
                              Proverb #12:  A Good Friend Is Better Than a Bad Family Member
 
 
                              Proverb #13: The Tiger’s Cub Does Not Chew Grass
 
 
                              Proverb #14: If You Give Your Mother a Counterfeit Money, You...
 
 
                              Proverb #15: The Person Who Sits Next to Someone Can Easily Smell His Mouth
 
 
                              Proverb #16:  The Knife and the Axe Do Not Compete
 
 
                              Proverb #17:  You Cannot Climb a Tree Without Support
 
 
                              Proverb #18:  Let the Kite and the Eagle Perch and Whichever One...
 
 
                              Proverb #19:  The Crazy Person and His Mind Understand
 
 
                              Proverb #20:  In My Poverty, Let Not Poverty Befall the Person Who...
 
 
                              Proverb #21:  The Child’s Home, Even If It Is Trashy, Is Always a Palace Away From Home
 
 
                              Proverb #22:  The Rooster Does Not Forget Who Plucked Its Feathers...
 
 
                              Proverb #23: When the Moon Is Shining, a Person With a Physical...
 
 
                              Proverb #24: When a Child Is Tired of Working, He Resorts to Fighting
 
 
                              Proverb #25: When You Dig a Ditch for Others, You Might Fall in It
 
 
 
3: Proverbs That Teach Spirituality
                              Proverb #1: 	If You’re Eating With the Devil, You Must Use a Long Spoon
 
 
                              Proverb #2: 	If You Fall Down and Do Not Stand Up, Evil Will Take Over
 
 
                              Proverb #3: 	God Does Not Give You a Load That You Cannot Carry
 
 
                              Proverb #4:  Evildoers Are Usually Pursued By Their Own Shadows
 
 
                              Proverb #5:  Do Not Put Yourself Where Your Faith Will Fail You
 
 
                              Proverb #6: I Am Holding My Staff and You Are Holding Your...
 
 
                              Proverb #7:	The Toughest Head Carries the Masquerade	
 
 
                              Proverb #8:	Let’s Continue to Sacrifice and Let the Blame Go to the Gods
 
 
                              Proverb #9:	God Gives and God Takes
 
 
                              Proverb #10: If You Are Better Than Someone, You Might Be Better...
 
 
                              Proverb #11: No Person Is God	
 
 
                              Proverb #12: God Knows the Heart of Everyone
 
 
                              Proverb #13: The Same Mother Delivers the Children, but the Same...
 
 
                              Proverb #14: When You Believe, Your God Will Believe	
 
 
                              Proverb #15: God’s Time Is The Best
 
 
                              Proverb #16: You Can Never Become Someone Else’s God	
 
 
                              Proverb #17: The Opportunity That God Sends Does Not Wake Up...
 
 
                              Proverb #18: Everyone Has His/Her Own God
 
 
                              Proverb #19: There Is No Partnership Between Good and Evil
 
 
                              Proverb #20: A Person Who Ridicules Good Will Become Overtaken by Evil
 
 
                              Proverb #21: The Fear of God Is Not Based on What We Wear
 
 
                              Proverb #22: A Person Who Trusts in God Lacks Nothing	
 
 
                              Proverb #23: A Witch Doctor Does Not Cure Himself
 
 
                              Proverb #24: Where There Are Many People, There God Is
 
 
                              Proverb #25: The Veil Spirit of a Person Is a Person
 
 
 
4. Proverbs That Teach Other Life Lessons
                              Proverb #1: Nights Have Ears
 
 
                              Proverb #2: 	As Much as You Love Your Husband, You Will Not Want to be Buried Alive With Him
 
 
                              Proverb #3: 	When a Poor Person Is Told What It Takes to Be Rich...
 
 
                              Proverb #4: 	The Frog Does Not Come Out in the Daytime for Nothing
 
 
                              Proverb #5: 	A Traveler Is More Knowledgeable Than an Aged Person
 
 
                              Proverb #6: 	The Dying Dog Does Not Smell the Bad Odor
 
 
                              Proverb #7: 	We Never Go Back to Yesterday
 
 
                              Proverb #8:	Patience Is King
 
 
                              Proverb #9:	You Do Not Tell the Deaf Person That...
 
 
                              Proverb #10: The Hot Soup Is Usually Licked Slowly
 
 
                              Proverb #11: When the Wind Blows, You See the Chicken’s Buttocks
 
 
                              Proverb #12: Truth Is Life
 
 
                              Proverb #13: Soiled Hands Lead to the Oily Mouth
 
 
                              Proverb #14: The Patient Person Eats the Best Part of the Fish
 
 
                              Proverb #15: All Lizards Are Lying on Their Stomachs, and...
 
 
                              Proverb #16: When the Child’s Sore Is Healed, He Tends to Forget the Pain
 
 
                              Proverb #17: A Child Must Crawl Before Walking
 
 
                              Proverb #18: The Look of a Child Determines If You Will Take Food From Him
 
 
                              Proverb #19: It Does Not Matter How Bad the Yam Is; It Is Still...
 
 
                              Proverb #20: When Dried Bones Are Mentioned, Old People Feel Uneasy
 
 
                              Proverb #21: A Person Who Is Already on the Floor Does Not...
 
 
                              Proverb #22: Tomorrow Is Pregnant; No One Knows What It Might Deliver
 
 
                              Proverb #23: There Is No Use for a Dry Porridge	
 
 
                              Proverb #24: As the Cow Gets Older, Its Nostrils Get Bigger
 
 
                              Proverb #25:   Anything With a Beginning Must Have an End
 
 
 
Afterword