“Eliwe oke ehi, edowa oke mmadụ,oke ehi dobiri,oke mmadụ achụwa ya,gide ya.”
Editorial:
Just one word has been changed without damaging the sense of Arthur's proverb. With the Igbo ever so sensitive over slavery and the trade which decimated its peoples, we don't want to use ... 'Eliwe mmadụ ... which was how this proverb was given: 'Eliwe' is the same sense as 'tie to a post' and since we do not want to depict tying a human being to a tree or post, we have changed the word Eliwe to Edowa when depicting the human case - to be politically correct. Edowa means 'keep near' in the sense used here.
The Proverb means: If you tie a great bull to a tree, do keep a hero of great stature close by; if the bull escapes, you can at least hope that the hero chases it and catches it. In Arthur's original words, posted below:
Eliwe oke ehi,eliwe oke mmadụ,oke ehi dobiri,oke mmadụ achụwa ya,gide ya.Just one word has been changed without damaging the sense of Arthur's proverb. With the Igbo ever so sensitive over slavery and the trade which decimated its peoples, we don't want to use ... 'Eliwe mmadụ ... which was how this proverb was given: 'Eliwe' is the same sense as 'tie to a post' and since we do not want to depict tying a human being to a tree or post, we have changed the word Eliwe to Edowa when depicting the human case - to be politically correct. Edowa means 'keep near' in the sense used here.
The Proverb means: If you tie a great bull to a tree, do keep a hero of great stature close by; if the bull escapes, you can at least hope that the hero chases it and catches it. In Arthur's original words, posted below:
Proverb contributed By Arthur Iwualla, Orodo, Mbieri.
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