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Lalami3232:
While y'all are enjoying this awesome story, let me use this time to enlighten and save you from further future troubles.
Did you meet your wife as a virgin? If NO, then the below will save you alot

Oga if you know say you no meet your wife as a virgin, oga go for DNA test oooooo because boreholes a.k.a non-virgins can't be trusted atall

This man what is your problem with people's wives for God's sake?

E be like say e get one DNA lab wey sign you o 😁😁😁🤣

Nlkay:
The irony of story is that she got what she bargained for. When eye too open, dirty go fall inside. Na so e b babygirl

C h a i..

Mrfeel:
Didn't you read the lyrics to the song , gentleman mike sample it

Tortoise
Nnam Eze akpatam enyi ( my king I have brought the elephant)

Elephant
Nwa mbe isi na ikpata onye ( small tortoise who did you say you brought?)

Tortoise
Asim Ana ya chebe enyi dube enyi odikam SI na akpatam enyi (I said let the earth protect and guide the elephant did I say I brought the elephant?)
Tortoise
Okwe enyi ga abu isi oche ( is it not the elephant that will be the chairman?)

Tortoise
Enyi na aga ayi so gi na Azu (elephant continue moving we are behind you)

That's a song production not folklore song. Folklores usually have an accompanying song

GanagiBitrus:
Animal stories always a good way to teach kids life lessons.

But the stories no dey ever sweet if Tortoise🐢 no follow.

Kukutente23:
That's a song production not folklore song. Folklores usually have an accompanying song

Give me the definition of a folklore song and song production?

Kukutente23:
That's a song production not folklore song. Folklores usually have an accompanying song

Igbos have alot of these folklore if you read igbo history you will find similar folklore short stories moral lessons in the stories are the most important

Tarhorvic:
The elephant in that story must be very stupid, dunce and an ignoramus

Like APC supporters?

This story narrates how small number of politicians are able to manipulate Nigerians to carry (vote and support) them to their place of achieving their life-long ambitions. Meanwhile, they leave their followers in acute hunger and deprivation.

It's time for Nigerians to wake up!!!

Mrfeel:
Igbos have alot of these folklore if you read igbo history you will find similar folklore short stories moral lessons in the stories are the most important

I'm not disputing that
But this particular one is Yoruba

Mrfeel:
Give me the definition of a folklore song and song production?

A folklore song usually accompanies the story and its drawn from the main theme of the story and is short, more like a chant
The production song on the other hand is a full song that tells a story in itself

Lalami3232:
While y'all are enjoying this awesome story, let me use this time to enlighten and save you from further future troubles.
Did you meet your wife as a virgin? If NO, then the below will save you alot

Oga if you know say you no meet your wife as a virgin, oga go for DNA test oooooo because boreholes a.k.a non-virgins can't be trusted atall

Read this story below and get sense! While you are busy celebrating your marriage to a virgin, 99 dudes in the neighbourhood are making a borehole out of her puna. Dey play!

https://www.nairaland.com/8176844/man-recounts-how-wife-he

Exactly

Af0nja:
Wrong, when the elephant asked the tortoise "who did you say you have brought? "


The tortoise replied " I said let the gods bless and keep the elephant, but it sounds like I said I have brought the elephant "

Before I start the full story, here is the meaning of "Gwo Gwo Gwo Ngwo": it simply represents the sound of an elephant's footsteps.

I like the fact that the author stated that "Gwo Gwo Gwo Ngwo" represents the matching of the elephant. But that's because he/she is trying to make sense of it in English.

"Gwo" in Igbo is the matching of something big. It could be a big man, animal or anything. That heavy match is called "gwo" or "gwom" in Igbo. So, it's not a sound! It's an Igbo word! Just like "knock, knock, knock" in English but the word is "knock"

The closest you can get in English is "match, match, match" but which doesn't make the same sense as "gwo" to an Igbo man or woman.

It's not every African word that has meaning in English - vice versa.

My fellow Africans, be warned that the English language or French or any other European language doesn't allow us to enjoy first-hand experience with meaning, and if we keep speaking it, what would happen is that we will eventually become white people right here in Africa.

oluseyiforjesus:
How is d dance connected to d story then
Just asking....

My thoughts too

He was rewarded about 40 years after the release of the song.

Godfirst07:
Again, we heard about this just last week or so, why do we have to know again?, no hating though, I only thought there are more things to talk about that a story of a tortoise.

But I'm just seeing or hearing it for the first time

Lalami3232:
While y'all are enjoying this awesome story, let me use this time to enlighten and save you from further future troubles.
Did you meet your wife as a virgin? If NO, then the below will save you alot

Oga if you know say you no meet your wife as a virgin, oga go for DNA test oooooo because boreholes a.k.a non-virgins can't be trusted atall

Bad man save our unfaithful girls small naw

oluseyiforjesus:
How is d dance connected to d story then
Just asking....

My Yoruba friend, this story pass you

Kukutente23:
A folklore song usually accompanies the story and its drawn from the main theme of the story and is short, more like a chant
The production song on the other hand is a full song that tells a story in itself

Do all folklore have a song ? I'm half igbo half Tiv I know many folklore from both tribes without a song

Kukutente23:
I'm not disputing that
But this particular one is Yoruba

No, you can't say that, gentleman mike is far far older than that book you are talking about , are you telling me our grandparents who knew this folklore got it from that book?

Mrfeel:
No, you can't say that, gentleman mike is far far older than that book you are talking about , are you telling me our grandparents who knew this folklore got it from that book?

Your grandparents must have heard it from the Yorubas

Mrfeel:
Do all folklore have a song ? I'm half igbo half Tiv I know many folklore from both tribes without a song

Yeah but most usually do
This particular one does and it's Yoruba song

Kukutente23:
Your grandparents must have heard it from the Yorubas

What if the yoruba's heard it from the igbos?

Mrfeel:
What if the yoruba's heard it from the igbos?

That's not possible

Kukutente23:
That's not possible

It's also not possible that our grandparents heard it from the yoruba's

Mrfeel:
It's also not possible that our grandparents heard it from the yoruba's

It's very obvious
The igbo version has no accompanying song which makes it incomplete

Kukutente23:
It's very obvious
The igbo version has no accompanying song which makes it incomplete

Enyi na aga ayi so gi na Azu , is the song that accompies the story, the song comes up the moment the tortoise climbs to ride the elephant to the kings palace , so what song are you talking about again?

Mrfeel:
Enyi na aga ayi so gi na Azu , is the song that accompies the story, the song comes up the moment the tortoise climbs to ride the elephant to the kings palace , so what song are you talking about again?

Is this not the song composed by Mike

Nonsense story

Mrfeel:
The you read what he wrote? Cause what he wrote captures what is happening in the country

Gwo gwo gwo is wat is happening in naija abi?smh

Tarhorvic:
The elephant in that story must be very stupid, dunce and an ignoramus

In animal story telling

Tortise is always wise and Elephant is always foolish.

There is a similar story of how Tortoise deceived Elephant that he would be crown a King in the palace not knowing that a dug pit covered with mat awaits him in the palace

Nice summary! I just wish to point out few things. First, Eze called his family (including his wife, Adaeze and her siblings) and not the cabinet as you narrated and the story depicts an Animal kingdom not kingdom of men..you did well!!