There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him. - Chinua Achebe

As a man danced so the drums were beaten for him.

A man does not speak a lie to his son,” he said. “Remember that always. To say My father told me is to swear the greatest oath

We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true." [said Obierika] "There is no story that is not true," said Uchendu. "The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others. We have albinos among us. Do you not think that they came to our clan by mistake, that they have strayed from their way to a land where everybody is like them?

It began to dawn on me that although fiction was undoubtedly fictitious it could also be true or false, not with the truth or falsehood of a news item but as to its disinterestedness, its intention, its integrity.