Vintage Yoruba Proverbs: Owe Ile Yoruba
By Wale Owoeye
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VINTAGE YORUBA PROVERBS (Owe Ile Yoruba) is a collection of wise sayings from Yoruba tribe of West Africa featured with English translation for the understanding of global readers.
Full of wisdom and lyricism, it is a classic heritage from the heart of Africa.
Wale Owoeye
Wale Sasamura-Owoeye is a lawyer, poet, author, mystic, publisher, teacher and Renaissance Man. A Neo-Negritudian with the mission to make modern literary masterpieces for world audience, Wale Sasamura lives and practices law in Lagos, Nigeria
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Vintage Yoruba Proverbs - Wale Owoeye
SYNOPSIS
VINTAGE YORUBA PROVERBS (Òwe Ilẹ̀ Yorúbá) is a collection of wise sayings from the Yoruba Tribe of West Africa, one of the most advanced cultures from Africa. With many of the sayings over 2000 years old, handed down from generation to generation in spoken form; the oeuvre is ideal for Africans in the Diaspora who wants to experience or relive the ancient wisdom and magic replete in their original culture.
The proverbs are rendered in the mother tongue of Yoruba, with the necessary circumflexes (amin) added to enhance their musicality and understanding for speakers of Yoruba language. But it is also supplemented with its English translation and short explanatory note for global readers to enjoy and share in the goldmine of wisdom distilled from one of the