The man who brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit - Chinua Achebe

The guilty suffers; the sufferer is guilty. As for the righteous, those whose arms are straight, they will always prosper!

There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.

"Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of white chalk.

"I have kola," he announced when he sat down, and passed the disc over to his guest.

"Thank you. He who brings kola brings life. But I think you ought to break it," replied Okoye passing back the disc.

"No, it is for you, I think," and they argued like this for a few moments before Unoka accepted the honor of breaking the kola. Okoye, meanwhile, took the lump of chalk, drew some lines on the floor, and then painted his big toe."