What hurts one man may benefit another” and “a diseased village is a good village to a medicine man” - Elechi Amadi

He reconciles himself to these forces and treats them with reverence and dignity. He believes that his every action is guided and directed by spirits”

Ihuoma is the sea-king’s main interest and her male admires are victims of circumstance and of their own misdeeds”

One thing is clear: I shall marry Ihuoma. She is a human being, and if marrying a woman like her is a fatal mistake, I am prepared to make it. If I am her husband for a day before my death my soul will go singing happily to the spirit world. There also I shall be prepared to dare the wrath of four hundred Sea Kings for her sake.