Igbos come show your proverbs skills

", Anya mmiri ekweghi ya kporue ya n'isi"    Chai, mgbe ezi ka di n'ukwu ukwa; mgbe mbe ka bu okorobia.

@topic,

Ala adighi echere elu aka mgba n'ibu aso
the land does not engage the sky in spitting contest (remember gravity?)

Agbusi gbaa ala, ya na onye aburu nwanne?
If the ant stings the ground, their brotherhood will be severed

Ara na obi adighi ese okwu
the breast and the chest cannot be enemies

Uche be akpa, onye obuna nya nke ya
the mind is like a bag, everybody carries his own

Onye n'amaghi ebe mmiri si mawa ya adighi ama ebe o kwusiri
he who does not know where the rain started beating him does not know where it stopped

Ihe nkwo muru gan'eburiri okuko
the offspring of a hawk must be feeding on chickens

Okuko bia ebe o namaghi ala, o were ofu ukwu wee kwuru
if a fowl comes to a strange land, it stands with one leg

O na abu atuo onye ike ahia, o rie uru, rie isi ahia
if a tyrant is entrusted with abusiness, he misappropriates the capital and interest/proceed/gain.

Nwoke nwanyi na afuru opi n'eji azu awula be mmuo
a man that dances to a womans tunes is doomed for destruction (no offense to the ladies please)

Akwa okuko tiwaa aki, ihere emee nkume
if the egg breaks palm karnel, the stone will be ashamed

Okwute ria elu, egwu ejide ite owoko (that is my native name for earthen pot)
if the stone climbs up, the earthen pots shiver in fear (you know why).

. . . .gi na onyekwanu?heheeee okwa nani gi kara oooooh
aka m bukwa  sweet sixteen  old baby pancake anaghi aka nka buko. 
@Kashiff,idi egwu na ilu.ya gazie.
@Echebobo,ya gazie dede.

@topic,eriri ma ngwugwu,ngwugwu ma onye kere ya.

Hailings! Igbo Knewu!! 

Ify ndu agadi nwanyi babi ga adi oooh 

Ejighi eyo ekiri ihe agba n'aka
You don't need a mirror to see what you are wearing on your hand

ilu a na nkowa ya ekweghim nghota biko.uburu eke m needs to be helped here.
oso:onye na aso
nwanyi isi nkpe:agadu/ajadu
soro ya:o kweghim nghota 
na odu ezi:a pigs tail ka o bu gini 
@topic,oji ihe nwata welie aka ya elu,mgbe aka jiri ya,o wetue ya.
youngies,ekwe m na isi 

@youngies a hotara m ntughari ya na bekke mana yet o kweghim nghota ma o bu okwukwu na igbo.i can't speak/say it in igbo. o m choro itukwanu d ilu,how do i do?

Echelon, ilu gi nkea bukwanu ahu anyuru n'elu gbara mu be ijiji ghari. Isi ekwere wee kwaa okpu no na ya bu okwu ahu bu 'alugene' . Agbanyeghi na obu mkpa akwukwo ka dibia ji aka ibe ya, mmiri a juru awo onu. Biko tapia okwu ahu na Igbo izugbe nwa nna.

Igbo kachaa nu!

Akwuna kawa nka, ya eyiwe akwa (uwe) ocha, ndi mmadu asi na obu owu mmiri (when age begins to catch up with a harlot, she would form the habit of wearing white clothes, and the public would say that she is being disturbed by marine spirit).

Ndu mmiri, ndu azu!!

The celebration of the 50th anniversary of Things Fall Apart, a novel written by Nwa afo Igbo - Prof. Chinua Achebe is on.

At age 77,  Chinua Achebe is living in grace and in exile, housed in a cottage built just for him on the campus of Bard College, lonely for his Ogidi country home and the people for whom his stories have been written.

Let all who can; salute him and wish him well also.

youngies kwanum more about him.
gini mere o jiri noro on exile ?

In 1990, Achebe was severely injured in a car accident in Nigeria that left him paralyzed from the waist down. That year he came to Bard at the invitation of its president, Leon Botstein, to continue his recuperation, and he has stayed, living in exile from his homeland. (Remember most intellectuals were in exile because of the military juanta - IBB)

In 1999 he returned to his village for an extended festival in his honor. "I couldn't do anything else, except receive people," he says. But more recently, his protests against government corruption in Nigeria have made him unwelcome there. After years of dignified but forthright objections to Nigeria's often-tyrannical rulers, in 2004 he declined the high Nigerian honor of Commander of the Federal Republic. Excerpts of his rejection letter:

"I write this letter with a very heavy heart. For some time now I have watched events in Nigeria with alarm and dismay. I have watched particularly the chaos in my own state of Anambra where a small clique of renegades, openly boasting its connections in high places, seems determined to turn my homeland into a bankrupt and lawless fiefdom. I am appalled by the brazenness of this clique and the silence, if not connivance, of the Presidency.

Forty three years ago, at the first anniversary of Nigeria’s independence I was given the first Nigerian National Trophy for Literature. In 1979, I received two further honors – the Nigerian National Order of Merit and the Order of the Federal Republic – and in 1999 the first National Creativity Award.

I accepted all these honors fully aware that Nigeria was not perfect; but I had a strong belief that we would outgrow our shortcomings under leaders committed to uniting our diverse peoples.

Nigeria’s condition today under your watch is, however, too dangerous for silence. I must register my disappointment and protest by declining to accept the high honor awarded me in the 2004 Honors List."

So in respect to the above letter he said, "That has changed everything for me," he says. "I can't simply get on a plane and return home."

The idea that he will be a permanent expatriate clearly saddens him. It angers him, too. Nigeria is a study in wasted opportunity and promise, he contends.

"Nigeria should not be a third-world country, at this stage," he says. "It is very lucky in human and material resources. So to see it going to waste is very annoying

Ify I hope I was able to give you some clue 

I think so too. In which case the proverb makes sense.

Ndi be anyi ano m n'uko ilu 

Udo diri umu Igbo!


Ify weep not for ndi Igbo for we are made from a special stock.

It gladdens my heart to know that there are so many Igbo sons and daughters who are already stepping into the big shoes left behind by these our aged and dead heros.

Young igbo writers like: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Half of a Yellow Sun ) have already won the Orange Broadband Prize. Mr. Dulue Mbachu is also emerging as a strong force.

In the music scene, I need not remind you of folks like: the famed Peter & Paul Okoye (P square), Faze, Sunny Bobo, NaggaRaw, Ikechukwu e.t.c

We shall overcome!!

youngies,echelon,kashiff,mortiple na ndi niile na atuputa ilu igbo,weekend oma nu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tix6puv8BHo&feature=related

@topic,a nyuko amiri onu,o gba ofufu.

@Echelon

Nwanna, Ilu ndia kagara akaga!  Jisie ike

@Ifyalways

Ify nwanyi oma,

Sunny Bobo na agba mbo kama obu egwu ndiozo ka ona eti (copycat).

Saro Wiwa na agba mbo kama amayim ihe mere oji zaa aha onye iro Ndigbo (Ken Saro Wiwa - an enemy of Ndigbo).  Enwerem ofu egwu ahu otiri abua - 2 Audio CDs.
Kedu maka Eluigwe Ugorji - Uwa to uto fufu (the world is sweet and bitter) My favourite!
Kedu kwanu maka Chima Ekeh - Obaraeze (i.e. the wealthy one) - also fantastic!
Dr. Sir Foreigner so kwaa biri.

Egwu ndia ka ana akpo EGWU BONGO! (The Music of Owerri people and sorrounding towns).

Ify nwada, ekelem gi ozo kwa!