100 Multicultural Proverbs
Inspirational Affirmations for Educators
Festus E. Obiakor
- Valdosta State University, USA
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"Obiakor poignantly bestows upon us the infinite wisdom of culturally diverse peoples that has been passed down from generation to generation. At the same time, he provides interpretations that challenge us to rethink traditional school leadership and teaching styles in ways that lead to transformed educational practices for all learners—adults and children alike—in an age of accountability and reform."
—Stanley C. Trent, Associate Professor of Special Education
University of Virginia
Traditional wisdom to inspire and enrich your teaching and leadership!
This thought-provoking book presents wise sayings from different continents, countries, tribes, and religions—proverbs that have had a historical impact on the building of communities and that continue to influence present-day events.
Believing that the complexity of the world's problems calls for new ways of thinking, discussing, sharing, teaching, and learning, the author focuses on the implications that these proverbs have for interpersonal communication and cooperation in today's society.
Ideal for teachers and administrators, this illuminating text offers thoughtful reflection about:
- Self-responsibility
- Collaboration and consultation
- Spirituality
- General life lessons
Contents
Foreword
Foreword
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
About the Author
- 1. Proverbs That Teach Self-Responsibility
- Proverb #1: If Everyone Loves You, You Will Not Know Who Poisoned You
- Proverb #2: If You Tell a Tree that You Will Kill It...
- Proverb #3: The Rat That Joins the Lizard to Get Wet in the Rain...
- Proverb #4: What You’re Looking for Is What You Will Get
- Proverb #5: What a Person Does Is in His Heart
- Proverb #6: If You’ve Not Reached Where You’re Going, You Should Keep Going
- Proverb #7: Eneke the Bird Noted That Since Men Have Learned to...
- Proverb #8: Your Intelligence Is Your Handbag, and You Carry It...
- Proverb #9: When a Young Man Washes His Hands Properly...
- Proverb #10: The Lizard That Fell From the Iroko Tree Said That If...
- Proverb #11:The Person Who Blows the Flute Must Sometimes Wipe His Mouth
- Proverb #12:The Dog Does Not Chew the Bone That Is Hanging Around Its Neck
- Proverb #13: If You Do Not Allow People to Know What Your Size...
- Proverb #14: If You Pull a Tree and It Pulls You Back, You Should Leave it Alone
- Proverb #15: If One Is Not Careful, What Destroyed His Father Might Destroy Him
- Proverb #16: As You Make Your Bed so Will You Lie on It
- Proverb #17: If You Try to Wrestle Down Your Father, His Wrapper Will Cover Your Eyes
- Proverb #18: When You Chew the Dried Meat, it Fills Up Your Mouth
- Proverb #19: You Can Cry All You Want, But You Cannot Cry Out Blood
- Proverb #20: Where You Live Is Where You Protect
- Proverb #21: Money Is the Beauty of a Man
- Proverb #22: It Is Not the Load That Breaks Us Down; It Is the Way We Carry It
- Proverb #23: A Good Name Shines in the Dark
- Proverb #24: A Person Who Does Not Concede Defeat Is Not a Good Sport
- Proverb #25: A Person Who Praises the Rain Has Been Rained On
- 2. Proverbs That Teach Collaboration and Consultation
- Proverb #1: Life Is in the Ears
- Proverb #2: To Come and Eat Is Not to Come and Work!
- Proverb #3: A Tree Cannot Make a Forest
- Proverb #4: When Mother Cow Is Chewing Grass, the Younger Ones Look at Her Mouth
- Proverb #5: It Takes a Whole Village to Raise a Child
- Proverb #6: When You Wrestle Someone to the Ground, You Also...
- Proverb #7: A Fool Does Not Know That His Brother or Sister Is a Visitor
- Proverb #8: The Fly Without an Advisor Follows the Dead Body Into the Grave
- Proverb #9: A Gathering of Kinsmen and Kinswomen Is an...
- Proverb #10: When Two Elephants Fight, Grasses Suffer
- Proverb #11: Laughter Is Just a Matter of Moving Back the Cheek
- Proverb #12: A Good Friend Is Better Than a Bad Family Member
- Proverb #13: The Tiger’s Cub Does Not Chew Grass
- Proverb #14: If You Give Your Mother a Counterfeit Money, You...
- Proverb #15: The Person Who Sits Next to Someone Can Easily Smell His Mouth
- Proverb #16: The Knife and the Axe Do Not Compete
- Proverb #17: You Cannot Climb a Tree Without Support
- Proverb #18: Let the Kite and the Eagle Perch and Whichever One...
- Proverb #19: The Crazy Person and His Mind Understand
- Proverb #20: In My Poverty, Let Not Poverty Befall the Person Who...
- Proverb #21: The Child’s Home, Even If It Is Trashy, Is Always a Palace Away From Home
- Proverb #22: The Rooster Does Not Forget Who Plucked Its Feathers...
- Proverb #23: When the Moon Is Shining, a Person With a Physical...
- Proverb #24: When a Child Is Tired of Working, He Resorts to Fighting
- Proverb #25: When You Dig a Ditch for Others, You Might Fall in It
- 3: Proverbs That Teach Spirituality
- Proverb #1: If You’re Eating With the Devil, You Must Use a Long Spoon
- Proverb #2: If You Fall Down and Do Not Stand Up, Evil Will Take Over
- Proverb #3: God Does Not Give You a Load That You Cannot Carry
- Proverb #4: Evildoers Are Usually Pursued By Their Own Shadows
- Proverb #5: Do Not Put Yourself Where Your Faith Will Fail You
- Proverb #6: I Am Holding My Staff and You Are Holding Your...
- Proverb #7: The Toughest Head Carries the Masquerade
- Proverb #8: Let’s Continue to Sacrifice and Let the Blame Go to the Gods
- Proverb #9: God Gives and God Takes
- Proverb #10: If You Are Better Than Someone, You Might Be Better...
- Proverb #11: No Person Is God
- Proverb #12: God Knows the Heart of Everyone
- Proverb #13: The Same Mother Delivers the Children, but the Same...
- Proverb #14: When You Believe, Your God Will Believe
- Proverb #15: God’s Time Is The Best
- Proverb #16: You Can Never Become Someone Else’s God
- Proverb #17: The Opportunity That God Sends Does Not Wake Up...
- Proverb #18: Everyone Has His/Her Own God
- Proverb #19: There Is No Partnership Between Good and Evil
- Proverb #20: A Person Who Ridicules Good Will Become Overtaken by Evil
- Proverb #21: The Fear of God Is Not Based on What We Wear
- Proverb #22: A Person Who Trusts in God Lacks Nothing
- Proverb #23: A Witch Doctor Does Not Cure Himself
- Proverb #24: Where There Are Many People, There God Is
- Proverb #25: The Veil Spirit of a Person Is a Person
- 4. Proverbs That Teach Other Life Lessons
- Proverb #1: Nights Have Ears
- Proverb #2: As Much as You Love Your Husband, You Will Not Want to be Buried Alive With Him
- Proverb #3: When a Poor Person Is Told What It Takes to Be Rich...
- Proverb #4: The Frog Does Not Come Out in the Daytime for Nothing
- Proverb #5: A Traveler Is More Knowledgeable Than an Aged Person
- Proverb #6: The Dying Dog Does Not Smell the Bad Odor
- Proverb #7: We Never Go Back to Yesterday
- Proverb #8: Patience Is King
- Proverb #9: You Do Not Tell the Deaf Person That...
- Proverb #10: The Hot Soup Is Usually Licked Slowly
- Proverb #11: When the Wind Blows, You See the Chicken’s Buttocks
- Proverb #12: Truth Is Life
- Proverb #13: Soiled Hands Lead to the Oily Mouth
- Proverb #14: The Patient Person Eats the Best Part of the Fish
- Proverb #15: All Lizards Are Lying on Their Stomachs, and...
- Proverb #16: When the Child’s Sore Is Healed, He Tends to Forget the Pain
- Proverb #17: A Child Must Crawl Before Walking
- Proverb #18: The Look of a Child Determines If You Will Take Food From Him
- Proverb #19: It Does Not Matter How Bad the Yam Is; It Is Still...
- Proverb #20: When Dried Bones Are Mentioned, Old People Feel Uneasy
- Proverb #21: A Person Who Is Already on the Floor Does Not...
- Proverb #22: Tomorrow Is Pregnant; No One Knows What It Might Deliver
- Proverb #23: There Is No Use for a Dry Porridge
- Proverb #24: As the Cow Gets Older, Its Nostrils Get Bigger
- Proverb #25: Anything With a Beginning Must Have an End
Afterword
Afterword
Description
"Obiakor poignantly bestows upon us the infinite wisdom of culturally diverse peoples that has been passed down from generation to generation. At the same time, he provides interpretations that challenge us to rethink traditional school leadership and teaching styles in ways that lead to transformed educational practices for all learners—adults and children alike—in an age of accountability and reform."
—Stanley C. Trent, Associate Professor of Special Education
University of Virginia
Traditional wisdom to inspire and enrich your teaching and leadership!
This thought-provoking book presents wise sayings from different continents, countries, tribes, and religions—proverbs that have had a historical impact on the building of communities and that continue to influence present-day events.
Believing that the complexity of the world's problems calls for new ways of thinking, discussing, sharing, teaching, and learning, the author focuses on the implications that these proverbs have for interpersonal communication and cooperation in today's society.
Ideal for teachers and administrators, this illuminating text offers thoughtful reflection about:
- Self-responsibility
- Collaboration and consultation
- Spirituality
- General life lessons
Contents
Foreword
Foreword
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
About the Author
- 1. Proverbs That Teach Self-Responsibility
- Proverb #1: If Everyone Loves You, You Will Not Know Who Poisoned You
- Proverb #2: If You Tell a Tree that You Will Kill It...
- Proverb #3: The Rat That Joins the Lizard to Get Wet in the Rain...
- Proverb #4: What You’re Looking for Is What You Will Get
- Proverb #5: What a Person Does Is in His Heart
- Proverb #6: If You’ve Not Reached Where You’re Going, You Should Keep Going
- Proverb #7: Eneke the Bird Noted That Since Men Have Learned to...
- Proverb #8: Your Intelligence Is Your Handbag, and You Carry It...
- Proverb #9: When a Young Man Washes His Hands Properly...
- Proverb #10: The Lizard That Fell From the Iroko Tree Said That If...
- Proverb #11:The Person Who Blows the Flute Must Sometimes Wipe His Mouth
- Proverb #12:The Dog Does Not Chew the Bone That Is Hanging Around Its Neck
- Proverb #13: If You Do Not Allow People to Know What Your Size...
- Proverb #14: If You Pull a Tree and It Pulls You Back, You Should Leave it Alone
- Proverb #15: If One Is Not Careful, What Destroyed His Father Might Destroy Him
- Proverb #16: As You Make Your Bed so Will You Lie on It
- Proverb #17: If You Try to Wrestle Down Your Father, His Wrapper Will Cover Your Eyes
- Proverb #18: When You Chew the Dried Meat, it Fills Up Your Mouth
- Proverb #19: You Can Cry All You Want, But You Cannot Cry Out Blood
- Proverb #20: Where You Live Is Where You Protect
- Proverb #21: Money Is the Beauty of a Man
- Proverb #22: It Is Not the Load That Breaks Us Down; It Is the Way We Carry It
- Proverb #23: A Good Name Shines in the Dark
- Proverb #24: A Person Who Does Not Concede Defeat Is Not a Good Sport
- Proverb #25: A Person Who Praises the Rain Has Been Rained On
- 2. Proverbs That Teach Collaboration and Consultation
- Proverb #1: Life Is in the Ears
- Proverb #2: To Come and Eat Is Not to Come and Work!
- Proverb #3: A Tree Cannot Make a Forest
- Proverb #4: When Mother Cow Is Chewing Grass, the Younger Ones Look at Her Mouth
- Proverb #5: It Takes a Whole Village to Raise a Child
- Proverb #6: When You Wrestle Someone to the Ground, You Also...
- Proverb #7: A Fool Does Not Know That His Brother or Sister Is a Visitor
- Proverb #8: The Fly Without an Advisor Follows the Dead Body Into the Grave
- Proverb #9: A Gathering of Kinsmen and Kinswomen Is an...
- Proverb #10: When Two Elephants Fight, Grasses Suffer
- Proverb #11: Laughter Is Just a Matter of Moving Back the Cheek
- Proverb #12: A Good Friend Is Better Than a Bad Family Member
- Proverb #13: The Tiger’s Cub Does Not Chew Grass
- Proverb #14: If You Give Your Mother a Counterfeit Money, You...
- Proverb #15: The Person Who Sits Next to Someone Can Easily Smell His Mouth
- Proverb #16: The Knife and the Axe Do Not Compete
- Proverb #17: You Cannot Climb a Tree Without Support
- Proverb #18: Let the Kite and the Eagle Perch and Whichever One...
- Proverb #19: The Crazy Person and His Mind Understand
- Proverb #20: In My Poverty, Let Not Poverty Befall the Person Who...
- Proverb #21: The Child’s Home, Even If It Is Trashy, Is Always a Palace Away From Home
- Proverb #22: The Rooster Does Not Forget Who Plucked Its Feathers...
- Proverb #23: When the Moon Is Shining, a Person With a Physical...
- Proverb #24: When a Child Is Tired of Working, He Resorts to Fighting
- Proverb #25: When You Dig a Ditch for Others, You Might Fall in It
- 3: Proverbs That Teach Spirituality
- Proverb #1: If You’re Eating With the Devil, You Must Use a Long Spoon
- Proverb #2: If You Fall Down and Do Not Stand Up, Evil Will Take Over
- Proverb #3: God Does Not Give You a Load That You Cannot Carry
- Proverb #4: Evildoers Are Usually Pursued By Their Own Shadows
- Proverb #5: Do Not Put Yourself Where Your Faith Will Fail You
- Proverb #6: I Am Holding My Staff and You Are Holding Your...
- Proverb #7: The Toughest Head Carries the Masquerade
- Proverb #8: Let’s Continue to Sacrifice and Let the Blame Go to the Gods
- Proverb #9: God Gives and God Takes
- Proverb #10: If You Are Better Than Someone, You Might Be Better...
- Proverb #11: No Person Is God
- Proverb #12: God Knows the Heart of Everyone
- Proverb #13: The Same Mother Delivers the Children, but the Same...
- Proverb #14: When You Believe, Your God Will Believe
- Proverb #15: God’s Time Is The Best
- Proverb #16: You Can Never Become Someone Else’s God
- Proverb #17: The Opportunity That God Sends Does Not Wake Up...
- Proverb #18: Everyone Has His/Her Own God
- Proverb #19: There Is No Partnership Between Good and Evil
- Proverb #20: A Person Who Ridicules Good Will Become Overtaken by Evil
- Proverb #21: The Fear of God Is Not Based on What We Wear
- Proverb #22: A Person Who Trusts in God Lacks Nothing
- Proverb #23: A Witch Doctor Does Not Cure Himself
- Proverb #24: Where There Are Many People, There God Is
- Proverb #25: The Veil Spirit of a Person Is a Person
- 4. Proverbs That Teach Other Life Lessons
- Proverb #1: Nights Have Ears
- Proverb #2: As Much as You Love Your Husband, You Will Not Want to be Buried Alive With Him
- Proverb #3: When a Poor Person Is Told What It Takes to Be Rich...
- Proverb #4: The Frog Does Not Come Out in the Daytime for Nothing
- Proverb #5: A Traveler Is More Knowledgeable Than an Aged Person
- Proverb #6: The Dying Dog Does Not Smell the Bad Odor
- Proverb #7: We Never Go Back to Yesterday
- Proverb #8: Patience Is King
- Proverb #9: You Do Not Tell the Deaf Person That...
- Proverb #10: The Hot Soup Is Usually Licked Slowly
- Proverb #11: When the Wind Blows, You See the Chicken’s Buttocks
- Proverb #12: Truth Is Life
- Proverb #13: Soiled Hands Lead to the Oily Mouth
- Proverb #14: The Patient Person Eats the Best Part of the Fish
- Proverb #15: All Lizards Are Lying on Their Stomachs, and...
- Proverb #16: When the Child’s Sore Is Healed, He Tends to Forget the Pain
- Proverb #17: A Child Must Crawl Before Walking
- Proverb #18: The Look of a Child Determines If You Will Take Food From Him
- Proverb #19: It Does Not Matter How Bad the Yam Is; It Is Still...
- Proverb #20: When Dried Bones Are Mentioned, Old People Feel Uneasy
- Proverb #21: A Person Who Is Already on the Floor Does Not...
- Proverb #22: Tomorrow Is Pregnant; No One Knows What It Might Deliver
- Proverb #23: There Is No Use for a Dry Porridge
- Proverb #24: As the Cow Gets Older, Its Nostrils Get Bigger
- Proverb #25: Anything With a Beginning Must Have an End
Afterword
Afterword
Reviews
December 2007 | 120 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 01/02/2026 | 9781412957809 | $37.95 |
| Lifetime | 01/02/2026 | 9781452295466 | $35.00 |
"Obiakor poignantly bestows upon us the infinite wisdom of culturally diverse peoples that has been passed down from generation to generation. At the same time, he provides interpretations that challenge us to rethink traditional school leadership and teaching styles in ways that lead to transformed educational practices for all learners—adults and children alike—in an age of accountability and reform."
—Stanley C. Trent, Associate Professor of Special Education
University of Virginia
Traditional wisdom to inspire and enrich your teaching and leadership!
This thought-provoking book presents wise sayings from different continents, countries, tribes, and religions—proverbs that have had a historical impact on the building of communities and that continue to influence present-day events.
Believing that the complexity of the world's problems calls for new ways of thinking, discussing, sharing, teaching, and learning, the author focuses on the implications that these proverbs have for interpersonal communication and cooperation in today's society.
Ideal for teachers and administrators, this illuminating text offers thoughtful reflection about:
- Self-responsibility
- Collaboration and consultation
- Spirituality
- General life lessons
Table Of Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- 1. Proverbs That Teach Self-Responsibility
- Proverb #1: If Everyone Loves You, You Will Not Know Who Poisoned You
- Proverb #2: If You Tell a Tree that You Will Kill It...
- Proverb #3: The Rat That Joins the Lizard to Get Wet in the Rain...
- Proverb #4: What You’re Looking for Is What You Will Get
- Proverb #5: What a Person Does Is in His Heart
- Proverb #6: If You’ve Not Reached Where You’re Going, You Should Keep Going
- Proverb #7: Eneke the Bird Noted That Since Men Have Learned to...
- Proverb #8: Your Intelligence Is Your Handbag, and You Carry It...
- Proverb #9: When a Young Man Washes His Hands Properly...
- Proverb #10: The Lizard That Fell From the Iroko Tree Said That If...
- Proverb #11:The Person Who Blows the Flute Must Sometimes Wipe His Mouth
- Proverb #12:The Dog Does Not Chew the Bone That Is Hanging Around Its Neck
- Proverb #13: If You Do Not Allow People to Know What Your Size...
- Proverb #14: If You Pull a Tree and It Pulls You Back, You Should Leave it Alone
- Proverb #15: If One Is Not Careful, What Destroyed His Father Might Destroy Him
- Proverb #16: As You Make Your Bed so Will You Lie on It
- Proverb #17: If You Try to Wrestle Down Your Father, His Wrapper Will Cover Your Eyes
- Proverb #18: When You Chew the Dried Meat, it Fills Up Your Mouth
- Proverb #19: You Can Cry All You Want, But You Cannot Cry Out Blood
- Proverb #20: Where You Live Is Where You Protect
- Proverb #21: Money Is the Beauty of a Man
- Proverb #22: It Is Not the Load That Breaks Us Down; It Is the Way We Carry It
- Proverb #23: A Good Name Shines in the Dark
- Proverb #24: A Person Who Does Not Concede Defeat Is Not a Good Sport
- Proverb #25: A Person Who Praises the Rain Has Been Rained On
- 2. Proverbs That Teach Collaboration and Consultation
- Proverb #1: Life Is in the Ears
- Proverb #2: To Come and Eat Is Not to Come and Work!
- Proverb #3: A Tree Cannot Make a Forest
- Proverb #4: When Mother Cow Is Chewing Grass, the Younger Ones Look at Her Mouth
- Proverb #5: It Takes a Whole Village to Raise a Child
- Proverb #6: When You Wrestle Someone to the Ground, You Also...
- Proverb #7: A Fool Does Not Know That His Brother or Sister Is a Visitor
- Proverb #8: The Fly Without an Advisor Follows the Dead Body Into the Grave
- Proverb #9: A Gathering of Kinsmen and Kinswomen Is an...
- Proverb #10: When Two Elephants Fight, Grasses Suffer
- Proverb #11: Laughter Is Just a Matter of Moving Back the Cheek
- Proverb #12: A Good Friend Is Better Than a Bad Family Member
- Proverb #13: The Tiger’s Cub Does Not Chew Grass
- Proverb #14: If You Give Your Mother a Counterfeit Money, You...
- Proverb #15: The Person Who Sits Next to Someone Can Easily Smell His Mouth
- Proverb #16: The Knife and the Axe Do Not Compete
- Proverb #17: You Cannot Climb a Tree Without Support
- Proverb #18: Let the Kite and the Eagle Perch and Whichever One...
- Proverb #19: The Crazy Person and His Mind Understand
- Proverb #20: In My Poverty, Let Not Poverty Befall the Person Who...
- Proverb #21: The Child’s Home, Even If It Is Trashy, Is Always a Palace Away From Home
- Proverb #22: The Rooster Does Not Forget Who Plucked Its Feathers...
- Proverb #23: When the Moon Is Shining, a Person With a Physical...
- Proverb #24: When a Child Is Tired of Working, He Resorts to Fighting
- Proverb #25: When You Dig a Ditch for Others, You Might Fall in It
- 3: Proverbs That Teach Spirituality
- Proverb #1: If You’re Eating With the Devil, You Must Use a Long Spoon
- Proverb #2: If You Fall Down and Do Not Stand Up, Evil Will Take Over
- Proverb #3: God Does Not Give You a Load That You Cannot Carry
- Proverb #4: Evildoers Are Usually Pursued By Their Own Shadows
- Proverb #5: Do Not Put Yourself Where Your Faith Will Fail You
- Proverb #6: I Am Holding My Staff and You Are Holding Your...
- Proverb #7: The Toughest Head Carries the Masquerade
- Proverb #8: Let’s Continue to Sacrifice and Let the Blame Go to the Gods
- Proverb #9: God Gives and God Takes
- Proverb #10: If You Are Better Than Someone, You Might Be Better...
- Proverb #11: No Person Is God
- Proverb #12: God Knows the Heart of Everyone
- Proverb #13: The Same Mother Delivers the Children, but the Same...
- Proverb #14: When You Believe, Your God Will Believe
- Proverb #15: God’s Time Is The Best
- Proverb #16: You Can Never Become Someone Else’s God
- Proverb #17: The Opportunity That God Sends Does Not Wake Up...
- Proverb #18: Everyone Has His/Her Own God
- Proverb #19: There Is No Partnership Between Good and Evil
- Proverb #20: A Person Who Ridicules Good Will Become Overtaken by Evil
- Proverb #21: The Fear of God Is Not Based on What We Wear
- Proverb #22: A Person Who Trusts in God Lacks Nothing
- Proverb #23: A Witch Doctor Does Not Cure Himself
- Proverb #24: Where There Are Many People, There God Is
- Proverb #25: The Veil Spirit of a Person Is a Person
- 4. Proverbs That Teach Other Life Lessons
- Proverb #1: Nights Have Ears
- Proverb #2: As Much as You Love Your Husband, You Will Not Want to be Buried Alive With Him
- Proverb #3: When a Poor Person Is Told What It Takes to Be Rich...
- Proverb #4: The Frog Does Not Come Out in the Daytime for Nothing
- Proverb #5: A Traveler Is More Knowledgeable Than an Aged Person
- Proverb #6: The Dying Dog Does Not Smell the Bad Odor
- Proverb #7: We Never Go Back to Yesterday
- Proverb #8: Patience Is King
- Proverb #9: You Do Not Tell the Deaf Person That...
- Proverb #10: The Hot Soup Is Usually Licked Slowly
- Proverb #11: When the Wind Blows, You See the Chicken’s Buttocks
- Proverb #12: Truth Is Life
- Proverb #13: Soiled Hands Lead to the Oily Mouth
- Proverb #14: The Patient Person Eats the Best Part of the Fish
- Proverb #15: All Lizards Are Lying on Their Stomachs, and...
- Proverb #16: When the Child’s Sore Is Healed, He Tends to Forget the Pain
- Proverb #17: A Child Must Crawl Before Walking
- Proverb #18: The Look of a Child Determines If You Will Take Food From Him
- Proverb #19: It Does Not Matter How Bad the Yam Is; It Is Still...
- Proverb #20: When Dried Bones Are Mentioned, Old People Feel Uneasy
- Proverb #21: A Person Who Is Already on the Floor Does Not...
- Proverb #22: Tomorrow Is Pregnant; No One Knows What It Might Deliver
- Proverb #23: There Is No Use for a Dry Porridge
- Proverb #24: As the Cow Gets Older, Its Nostrils Get Bigger
- Proverb #25: Anything With a Beginning Must Have an End
- Afterword
Recent Product Reviews:
The proverbs required more explanation than the students were able to understand from the explanations given by the author.
Dr Georges Boujakly, Counseling, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
"Teachers and administrators will find it a fine collection useful as a starting point for explorations of other cultures."
The Bookwatch, June 2008, Midwest Book Review
"A rich, lively, and positive commentary on our global cultures. Obiakor's selection of proverbs and the conceptual framework for the book is, to say the least, powerful. Equally impressive and effective are his brief interpretations and prescriptions for the appropriate use of these proverbs for those involved in education, leadership, and service provision."
From the Foreword by Jacob U. Gordon
"Obiakor poignantly bestows upon us the infinite wisdom of culturally diverse peoples that has been passed down from generation to generation. At the same time, he provides interpretations that challenge us to rethink traditional school leadership and teaching styles in ways that lead to transformed educational practices for all learners—adults and children alike—in an age of accountability and reform."
Stanley C. Trent, Associate Professor of Special Education, University of Virginia
"Obiakor’s interpretations of the proverbs challenge the ordinary mind to shift paradigms and power and expand our imaginations to use real principles to solve real problems. In addition, his interpretations uniquely touch on all facets of life and challenge educators and leaders to do the right thing."
William B. Harvey, Vice President for Equity & Diversity Affairs, University of Virginia