{"id":363,"date":"2010-10-04T14:17:33","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T18:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/outreach\/materials\/handouts\/nigeria\/"},"modified":"2023-03-15T21:18:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T01:18:12","slug":"nigeria","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/outreach\/teachingresources\/countries\/nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some Nigerian Proverbs<\/h2>\n
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  1. The child of an elephant will not be a dwarf. [Like father, like son] (Yoruba)<\/li>\n
  2. What an old man sees while lying down, a young man can never see even when he climbs up in a tree. (Yoruba)<\/li>\n
  3. Only the thing for which you have struggled will last. (Yoruba)<\/li>\n
  4. Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.<\/li>\n
  5. Whoever is patient with a cowrie shell will one day have thousands of them. (Hausa)<\/li>\n
  6. Seeing is better than hearing.<\/li>\n
  7. The day on which one starts out is not the time to start one\u2019s preparations.<\/li>\n
  8. What the child says, he has heard at home.<\/li>\n
  9. A wealthy man will always have followers.<\/li>\n
  10. Fine words do not produce food.<\/li>\n
  11. If you fill your mouth with a razor, you will spit blood.<\/li>\n
  12. Water may cover the footprint on the ground but it does not cover the words of the mouth. (Igbo)<\/li>\n
  13. One who has been bitten by a snake lives in fear of worms. [Once bitten, twice shy.] (Igbo)<\/li>\n
  14. Allah made the silk-cotton tree beautiful, so let the fig tree cease being angry. (Hausa)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Fiction<\/h2>\n

    Achebe, Chinua. Chike and the River<\/em> (East African Educ. Pub. Ltd., 1966)
    \n________.\u00a0 The Voter<\/em> (South Africa, ViVa Books, 1994)
    \nAdimora- Ezeigbo Akachi. The Buried Treasure<\/em> (Heinemann, 1992, U.S. Distributor is Chelsea House)
    \nAgwu, Ada K. Edet on Holiday<\/em> (Nigeria, Macmillan, 1977)
    \nFulani, Dan. Sauna: Secret Agent<\/em> (London, Arewa Books, 1981)
    \n________.\u00a0Sauna to the Rescue<\/em> (London, Arewa Books, 1981)
    \nOkoye, Ifeoma. Only Bread for Eze<\/em> (Nigeria, Fourth Dimension Pub.)
    \nOlaleye, Isaac. Bitter Bananas<\/em> (Carolina House, 1994)
    \n________.\u00a0The Distant Talking Drum<\/em> (Boyds Mills Press, 1995)
    \nRupert, Janet E. The African Mask<\/em> (New York, Clarion Books)
    \nSolaru, Lanna. Poor Akin!<\/em> (Ibadan, Univ. Press Ltd. 1985)
    \nStewart, Dianne. The Paper Chase<\/em> (Heinemann, 1991, US Distributor is Chelsea House)<\/p>\n

    Fiction\u00a0\/ Folktales<\/h2>\n

    Gershator, Phillis. The Iroko-Man: A Yoruba Folktale.<\/em> (New York: Orchard Books. 1994)<\/p>\n

    Gerson, Mary-Joan. How Night Came from the Sea: A Story from Brazil<\/em>. (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1992)<\/p>\n

    ________. Why the Sky is Far Away: A Nigerian Folktale<\/em>. (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1992)<\/p>\n

    Medearis, Angela Shelf. The Singing Man<\/em>. (New York: Holiday House, 1994)<\/p>\n

    Walker, Barbara K. The Dancing Palm Tree and Other Nigerian Folktales<\/em>. (Lubbock: Texas Tech. Pub., 1990)<\/p>\n

    Nonfiction<\/h2>\n

    Adeeb, Hassan and Bonnetta, Nigeria: One Nation Many Cultures.<\/em> (New York: Marshall Cavindish, 1996)<\/p>\n

    “The Yoruba People: Nigeria and Beyond.”<\/em> (Faces: The Magazine About People<\/em> 12(1), Sept., 1995)<\/p>\n

    Barker, Carol. <\/em><\/span>A Family in Nigeria.<\/em><\/span> (Minneapolis, Lerner Pub. Co.)<\/p>\n

    Isaacs, Deborah and Elizabeth. Benin: An African Kingdom<\/em>. (Educational Broadcasting Co.)<\/p>\n

    Millar, Heather. The Kingdom of Benin.<\/em> (New York: Marshall Cavendish,1997)<\/p>\n

    Onyefulu, Ifeoma. A is for Africa<\/em>. (New York, Cobblehill Books, 1993)<\/p>\n

    ________.<\/span> Emeka’s Gift<\/em>. (New York, Cobblehill Books, 1995)<\/p>\n

    Onyefulu, Ifeoma. Ogbo: Sharing Life in an African Village<\/em> (Gulliver Books, Harcourt Brace & Co., 1996)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Some Nigerian Proverbs The child of an elephant will not be a dwarf. [Like father, like son] (Yoruba) What an old man sees while lying down, a young man can never see even when he climbs up in a tree. (Yoruba) Only the thing for which you have struggled will last. (Yoruba) Not to know […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3690,"featured_media":0,"parent":11191,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3690"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23149,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/363\/revisions\/23149"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}