Yoruba is a Nigerian tribe known for buttressing their points with proverbs and witty sayings. Though these proverbs are wise words, they sometimes sound funny. It is also a fact that there is nothing the Yoruba people don’t have a proverb for. That is how important proverbs sounds to an average Yoruba man. Thethronemedia in this piece, takes a look at one of the proverbs and the story behind it. Enjoy…

There lived a very wealthy man named Chief Agbabiaka, who at a time was preparing for a party in his best friend’s house; dressed in one of his finest attires before remembering that his wife and children were not around, so he called his trusted slave as an escort. “Aremu, I am going to my friend’s party and as you can see, my wife and children are away from home, I need an escort, will you come along?.......
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