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  • Among the Ibo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

    - Chinua originally Albert Chinualumogo Achebe
      Things Fall  Apart, ch.1. The title is taken fromYeats's poem 'The Second Coming'.

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