Igbos are well renowned for their use of proverbs or idioms in expressing themselves when they speak in gatherings or meetings.

ILU BỤ MMANỤ NDI IGBO JI ERI OKWU || WORDS OF WISDOM, IGBO PROVERBS - GE E NTI, MA KI WERE HUO TA.

In order to understand Igbo proverbs, one needs to have an understanding of Igbo language, the culture and the environment.

Igbo Kwezuenu!!!

The Igbo proverbs I will be dropping is in no particular order. So go through them and meditate on each.

Little Secret: To learn how and when to use these Igbo proverbs is to say it out loud or read it out loud again and again until it becomes part of you.

Cheta na Ilu Igbo bụ mmanụ ndị Igbo ji eri okwu.

Now Igbo Proverbs: Learn Amazing Igbo Proverbs & It's Usage

1. Ndi igbo si na gidigidi bu ugwu eze

Literal meaning/Translation: Unity is strength. With Unity in Purpose, unity of mind together, we achieve more.

There is strength in numbers.

1. Ura ga-eju onye nwuru anwu afo.
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Literal meaning/Translation: A dead person shall have all the sleep necessary.

1. Nwata choba nke ya, o buru ajo nwa
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2. Onye gburu nwanne ya abughi dike
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3. Agaghi eji maka na dinta gburu ele were chee na ele abughi onye oso
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4. Ihe onye kwuru n'onu ka eji ekpe ya ikpe
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5. Oke nkita si na o bu anya ka ya ji eri aja a churu n'elu
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6. Oji akwu nyetu nchi, maka nchi adighi ari elu
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7. Nkita si na ihe o ji eso onye afo ukwu bu na oburu na o gboghi agbo, o ga anyuriri anyu
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1. igbo si no nwayô nwayô ka-eji aracha ofe di ôku
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Literal meaning/Translation: you lick a hot soup little by little

1. ihu di mma adighi nma i tu mbö
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Literal meaning/Translation: a pretty face does not deserve to be pinched

1. mberede nyiri dike, mana mberede ka eji ama dike
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Literal meaning/Translation: an impossibility is too much a task for a hero, but a hero is determined by the impossibility

1. önye ulö ya na-agba ôku anaghi achu ôke
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Literal meaning/Translation: someone that has his house on fire doesn't go chasing a rat

1. ezigbo ôyi kariri ajo nwanne
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Literal meaning/Translation: a good friend is better than a bad sibling (brother/sister)

1. Ndi Igbo si na onye yere nwata nkakwu ga enye kwa ya mmiri oji akwo aka
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Literal meaning/Translation: He who give a child a bush rat must also provide him with water to wash his hand.

1. Ndi Igbo si na nwata rie ihe o ji were muru anya, oraruo ura
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Literal meaning/Translation: When a child eats what has been keeping him awake, he will sleep

1. Ana ama okwa maka nwoke ida nelu, maka mgbe oga esi na elu daa ma da bi mkpuru amu ya.
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2. Eme ngwa ngwa, emehara odachi.
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1. awo anaghi agba oso ehehie na efu
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2. were ehehie chowa ewu ojii.
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Literal meaning/Translation: Search for the black goat in the day time when it becomes dark (difficult)

And so you have it. If you need an explanation or interpretation or meaning to any of the igbo proverbs, kindly reach out to me: Onuzurike Chukwuagozie, Yagazie...